Joan Dollarhite and Robert Waeldner are vying for the seat vacated by the former council chairman.
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.
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Food
Cookbook review: Anna Del Conte’s ‘Italian Kitchen’ walks you through the process
The writer is “supremely knowledgeable” without being judgy and she provides fairly simple recipes.
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Posted inLocal & State, Local Elections, News, Politics
Maine Senate race in towns north of Portland hotly contested
Democrat Cathy Breen of Falmouth and Republican Cathy Manchester of Gray compete for a seat that may decide which party controls the Senate.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Grief fills Maine town after crash kills football player, 16
Teammates in Gorham and relatives praise Branden Denis, one of two passengers who died in the car accident Sunday on Route 302 in Bridgton.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Westbrook man arrested for allegedly threatening cab driver
Keith O’Brien was charged with allegedly threatening to shoot a cab driver Sunday night in Westbrook.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Yarmouth police locate elderly man who went missing Monday
Police haven’t said where they found John Libby.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Mechanical malfunction cited in hayride accident that killed one, injured 22
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.
Posted inLocal & State, News
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.
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, Local & State, 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.’