Cassidy Charette, 17, of Oakland died from her injuries and her boyfriend, Connor Garland, 16, of Belgrade, is in fair condition at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Leslie Bridgers
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Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
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False Ebola rumor prompts Freeport school to isolate student, send notes home
School officials respond after a middle school student tells a high school student that her father was being tested for the disease.
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Posted inLife & Culture, News, Schools and Education
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.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
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.’
Posted inMaine, News
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.
Posted inBusiness, Life & Culture
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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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.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
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.
Posted inMaine, Nation & World, News
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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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.