Hannah LaClaire

Staff Writer

Hannah LaClaire is a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald, covering topics such as real estate and development, entrepreneurship and the cannabis industry among others. Before joining the Press Herald in January 2021, Hannah covered the town of Brunswick for The Times Record. She graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in Journalism, and reported for The Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., before moving back to Maine. In her free time, Hannah enjoys reading, running, cooking (eating) and traveling. She lives in Saco with her husband, her dog Olive and her cat Fred.

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Published
April 8, 2020

Brunswick-based SaviLinx hires 500 temporary workers, 150 in Maine, to assist during pandemic

The new hires will help answer questions, process claims and direct callers to other resources for state unemployment offices that are overwhelmed with calls from people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published
April 8, 2020

Brunswick Council approves funding for Cedar Street park-and-ride

The lot is scheduled to advertise for construction May 27, and will be graded, paved and striped over the summer. Work is scheduled to be completed in early November.
Published
April 7, 2020

Bowdoin College 3D printing face shields for healthcare workers on front lines of pandemic

According to the college, the emergency management team has also donated over 4,000 N95 masks, 480 pairs of safety glasses, 110 barrier gowns, 480 oral swabs and five boxes of exam table paper to Mid Coast Hospital.
Published
April 7, 2020

Oasis clinic: pandemic could have disproportionate impact on those who can least afford it

BRUNSWICK — As cases of coronavirus in Maine started picking up steam, so did Blake Cromwell’s anxiety, and with that came near-daily panic attacks. The 27-year-old Dunkin’ Donuts employee has asthma and is considered at high-risk, but as an essential employee who depends on every paycheck, taking an indefinite period of time off to quarantine […]
Published
April 7, 2020

Council extends emergency restrictions another two weeks

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Town Council on Monday renewed the town’s emergency shelter in place order for two weeks. Previously, the order has been effective for seven days at a time. If action is needed before the council’s next meeting April 21, council chair John Perreault can call the council to an emergency meeting. Last […]
Published
April 6, 2020

Pet adoptions can be ‘silver lining’ of pandemic, but shelter in dire need of donations to keep going

Adoptions have dropped dramatically and fundraisers and events are canceled, but the animals still need to be fed and cared for and the bills still need to be paid.
Published
April 5, 2020

Freeport retailers brace for potential long-term impacts of pandemic

If the coronavirus pandemic drags into the summer, keeping businesses closed, there is potential for a disproportionate economic impact in Freeport, a town known for its shopping.
Published
April 1, 2020

Photo: Sharing love from a distance

Daniel Atkins, of Brunswick, stands outside the Mid Coast Hospital entrance on Wednesday, thanking the doctors, nurses and hospital staff on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the second sign he has created to pass a message from a safe distance as concerns over COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, […]
Published
March 31, 2020

Brunswick renews shelter in place order with slight adjustments

The first change raises the number of children allowed in a child care setting from 10 to 12, and the second allows for “legal accounting and title services that cannot reasonably be accomplished remotely.” The town also temporarily suspended the required use of town trash bags.
Published
March 31, 2020

Bowdoin College ‘community member’ thought to have coronavirus tests negative

College officials did not have an update on whether the three other students thought to be infected had been tested or released from quarantine as of Tuesday, only saying they are under the care of doctors out of state with their families.