Staffers are excited to get new classrooms ready for students and a ribbon-cutting event on Sunday.
Leslie Bridgers
Columnist
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.
What was Portland thinking in 2014? Google it
The year’s most popular Google searches show that Maine’s largest city mirrors much of the nation in its Web obsessions … but it also wonders: ‘How to crochet’
Portland Trails receives $100,000 grant from Old Bug Light Foundation
The three-year grant is the largest that the nonprofit group has received from a foundation in Maine.
Pharmacy chain’s CEO moonlights as member of boards
Raymond Selectman Joe Bruno finds the time to add a wealth of public service responsibilities.
Home for Christmas: Paralyzed in ATV crash, Brian Walker returns to Portland
After nearly two months in rehabilitation in Boston, the former standout athlete holds out hope that he’ll get back on his feet again.
Maine finds pain therapies can beat pills
An integrated approach to pain management cuts dependence on pills and can provide better treatment and relief to patients.
Maine researchers seek new pain treatments
UNE and Mercy Hospital are part of a national network trying to understand chronic pain and find ways to help those who suffer.
Pain relief after amputation gives gift of mobility to Gorham woman
Third of three parts: Elisha Morgan walks on a prosthetic foot and reconsiders surgery to remove her other foot. But for now she’s more active, especially with the kids – and that was her biggest goal all along.
After foot amputated, relief and high hopes
Second of three parts: Surgery for searing pain affirms Elisha Morgan’s unusual solution, and a normal life seems in reach.
Choosing new limb lets patient step to new life
Elective amputation is not common, but those who choose it seek a fuller, more active life through advances in prosthetics.