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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PublishedOctober 7, 2014
Sixty-four years after it slipped away, Mainer gets his master’s
At 85, Howard Reiche Jr. of Falmouth takes an item off his ‘bucket list’ after his life’s work helps him complete the grad school program he started in 1950.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2014
Architects compete for redesign of block in Portland’s Old Port
The owner wants a ‘re-imagining’ that makes the properties more friendly to a diversity of tenants, and less a mecca ‘for kids to go and drink from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.’
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PublishedOctober 7, 2014
Portland council OKs 4 percent raises for city clerk and attorney
The clerk’s salary increases to $76,699 and the city attorney will earn $114,399 a year.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2014
Maine’s cool summer kindles hot foliage this fall
Unlike some of the dull leaf-peeping seasons of the recent past, this one has been eye-popping, and tourists appear to be taking notice.
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PublishedOctober 1, 2014
Portland’s Franklin Street in line for dramatic redesign
A plan to be introduced Wednesday would narrow the arterial to make pedestrians safer, reconnect neighborhoods and open land for development.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2014
Westbrook schools now filled to capacity
Two years after closing a school, the city may need to expand one or two buildings as an influx of immigrants helps to swell enrollments.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2014
Scotland’s vote on split from United Kingdom intrigues Mainers with Scottish ties
Some believe the idea of independence sounds romantic but might not be practical, and many say it’s not for them to decide.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2014
Westbrook names interim police and fire chiefs
Both are expected to apply for the job of public safety director, held since 2011 by Michael Pardue, who will step down next month.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2014
Hope Elephants board explains why animals must return to Oklahoma
The board said Thursday that eventually it would like to bring Rosie and Opal back to Maine.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2014
Two elephants to leave Maine after tragic death of caregiver
Tom Laurita says his brother James probably fell in their corral and was killed when 7,500-pound Rosie tried to help him.
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