Bonnie Washuk is the weekend reporter for the Portland Press Herald. She previously was the education writer and a general assignment reporter for the Sun Journal, focusing on Lewiston-Auburn schools. She began as a Lewiston Daily Sun reporter on Halloween, 1983. Since then she's worked for the Lewiston Evening Journal, Sunday, and the Sun Journal covering just about every beat. For 10 years she covered politics as the State House reporter. Bonnie's interests are cooking, dogs, the environment. She's an avid recycler, drives a Prius and does a lot of dog walking with her dogs Lucy and Zoe. A wife, mother of three sons and grandmother of four, she loves children. A great assignment for her is interviewing students. She lives in Portland, grew up in Augusta and attended the University of Maine at Augusta.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2023
Cumberland County Fair opens with big crowds
The fair began its 151st year Sunday with a demonstration by the Colby College Woodsmen and the kids pedal tractor pull.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2023
Portland police ask for help solving case of missing girl last seen in 1971
On the 52nd anniversary of when 16-year-old Cathy Marie Moulton was reported missing, authorities are seeking the public’s help. Moulton was last seen on Forest Avenue.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2023
10 people displaced after fire at Westbrook apartment building
A fire at a Westbrook apartment building displaced 10 people Friday, firefighters said. While residents were displaced because of damage, no injuries were reported. The Westbrook Fire Department responded after a resident called in about a fire in their unit. Crews extinguished the flames and searched the apartment where the fire stated, as well as […]
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2023
Police seek public’s help locating missing Saco woman
Andrea Ouellette previously went missing for more than three weeks in August.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2023
As cleanup from Lee continues, CMP says most customers should have power back
The Maine Emergency Management Agency and other state agencies were working with local safety officials on cleanup and recovery.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2023
Missing Sanford man found after 2 days was trapped in vehicle
Robert C. Brown, 65, of Sanford, was found by passersby, police said, and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2023
Two dead in Hiram homicide-suicide
Two people who were previously in a relationship were found dead this week, police said.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2023
One dead from storm damage as Lee knocks out power, blows over trees across Maine
Nearly 100,000 Central Maine Power and Versant customers lost power at the storm’s peak. A man died in Waldo County after a tree fell on his car as he was driving.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2023
Portland to hold ceremony Monday morning to honor victims of Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks
The memorial ceremony will be held at 8:30 a.m. Monday on the Eastern Promenade. Gov. Janet Mills has directed that flags be lowered on Monday to remember and honor those lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2023
‘Everyone is in shock and mourning all the lost ones,’ U.S. students at UNE campus in Morocco say
Jack Hooker and Amaya West, students at UNE’s Morocco campus, recount the last few days in Tangier. Since the quake hit, an atmosphere of shock and sadness has fallen over the city, they say.
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Wyeth artwork, memorabilia lost in devastating Port Clyde fire
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Maine Voices: Nobody would benefit from the building of the Gorham Connector
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Our View: House Republicans more devoted to infighting than governing
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South Portland High sends students home after morning lockdown
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Portland man shot in Old Port last year now suing bar and bouncer