Pat Gallant-Charette achieves her goal with a 21-mile crossing that had friends and family on edge.
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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Maine oil firm to pay $50K for EPA violations
Fabian Oil Inc. settles claims that its spill-prevention plans were inadequate.
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On third try, Westbrook swimmermakes it across English Channel
Pat Gallant-Charette, 60, overcame ‘very rough’ conditions to reach the shore of France today, successfully swimming across the English Channel, according to a blog post at 3:14 p.m.
She now holds the record for the oldest American woman to cross the channel . . .
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Running to remember
About 300 take part in a relay from Ogunquit to Portland in honor of Maine’s fallen soldiers.
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Injured hot air balloon pilot in satisfactory condition
PORTLAND — The pilot of a hot air balloon is in satisfactory condition after suffering second-degree burns at the Great Falls Balloon Festival in Lewiston Saturday, said a spokeswoman for Maine Medical Center. Andre Boucher, who was still at Maine Medical Center in Portland late this afternoon, was one of five people injured when propane […]
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Runners honor fallen Maine soldiers
About 300 people ran parts of the route in the event that honors the 79 soldiers with Maine ties who have died since Sept. 11, 2001.
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One injured in Brunswick motorcycle crash
The injured person is taken to Maine Medical Center.
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One found guilty of violating bottle law
A Kittery man is convicted of cashing in on out-of-state containers, but a separate jury acquits his wife, the redemption center’s legal owner.
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Husband guilty, wife not guilty of redemption theft
ALFRED — Separate juries found Thomas Woodard guilty and Megan Woodard not guilty today of theft by deception for stealing more than $10,000 by passing off out-of-state containers returned to his redemption center in Kittery, as if they were sold in Maine. The jury for Thomas Woodard returned its guilty verdict around 11:30 a.m. […]
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Juries get redemption theft cases
The defense maintains the state failed to prove the center’s owners knowingly took in ineligible bottles.