Leslie Bridgers is the features editor for the Portland Press Herald, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and culture. She spent 10 years as a reporter, half of that time for the Portland Press Herald, covering the western suburbs of Portland, writing feature stories and working on special projects. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2015
Former Brunswick bank teller pleads guilty to embezzlement
The Harpswell woman admitted to transferring $107,000 of a customer’s money into her account.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2015
Mast Landing Brewing gets go-ahead to open Westbrook’s first brewery
The company, which started in Freeport, plans to open a brewery and tasting room in January.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2015
Pain and joy of development: Renovation leaves tenant homeless, while couple builds dream condo on Munjoy Hill
Susan Morris and Chip Newell prepare to entertain on the deck of their Munjoy Hill condominium, with the Portland Observatory in the background at center. Newell, 68, and Morris, 55, are the developers behind 118 on Munjoy Hill, the luxury condominiums built on Congress Street at the crest of the Hill. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/ Staff […]
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PublishedNovember 15, 2015
Super-tight apartment market torments renters, redefines parts of city
A deep look into the extreme conditions and soaring prices reveals the human and financial trauma and the confluence of social trends that caused it.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2015
On Munjoy Hill, a lot of newcomers,
but still a sense of community‘The Hill’ was once a low-income domain viewed as a place to avoid, but a change in perception has turned it into an in-demand – and costly – place to live.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2015
History of a house tracks ups and downs of Munjoy Hill, now Portland’s hottest rental market
Story by Leslie Bridgers/ Staff Writer Date 2015, photo by Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer; 1924 photo from the Collections of the City of Portland – Planning and Development, Courtesy of www.MaineMemory.net item #37770 F ifty-seven feet northeast of a stone monument on the corner of Congress and North streets is a certain lot of land on […]
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PublishedNovember 15, 2015
Portland jumps aboard a hot affordable-housing trend – inclusionary zoning
Developers get incentives in exchange for building a percentage of middle-income units, a strategy that has had mixed results in other cities.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2015
Influx of affluence a two-edged sword, but end result is neighborhood transformed
Well-off newcomers transform some city neighborhoods with their desires for improved housing and ‘hip’ businesses, but that also can make it too costly from some long-timers to live there.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2015
Three apartment searches,
similar results: Ending up where they didn’t plan to liveStory by Leslie Bridgers/ Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza/ Staff Photographer Samuel Joyall and Lexi Snetsinger met online and were originally looking to buy a house together in Portland but instead are focusing their search in the Augusta area. A ll Lexi Snetsinger wants is to live with her fiance and her rat terrier, […]
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PublishedNovember 11, 2015
‘400 Healthy Recipes: Easy, Delicious, Low-Calorie,’ by the editors of Good Housekeeping
Pad Thai is easy to make (and healthy). Who knew? Now you don’t have to wait to go out to a restaurant to eat it.
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