A construction company’s former co-owner offers Westbrook 14 acres and the labor to build the fields.
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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Voters in four towns try again on SAD 61 budget
If the budget is rejected a third time, it will be harder for the school district to manage expenses.
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Feature Obituary: Arick Tarr, 20; fighter for the Army, defender of kids in school
Arick Tarr started talking about going into the Army soon after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He was 10 years old at the time. “He was just taken and very interested in the Army and what it did and why we fight for our country,” said his father, Richard Tarr, of Litchfield, N.H. […]
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Autopsy planned on body found in Phippsburg clam flat
A clam digger found the middle-aged man’s body Saturday morning.
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Wayward cab, crash cause pain on bridge
Construction work on Tukey’s Bridge had a role in both incidents, in which injuries were light.
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Limington man injured in ATV accident
LIMINGTON — A 51-year-old man was hospitalized with upper-back injuries after his all-terrain vehicle flipped over in the woods this afternoon, according to the Maine Warden Service. Ronald Pelletier of Limington was taken by ambulance to Maine Medical Center in Portland, said Game Warden Rick LaFlamme. Pelletier was following his nephew Brandon Johnson, 24, also […]
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Casco man wanted on sex charges arrested in Michigan
Antonio Jackson, 37, turns himself in and will be extradited to Maine.
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Crash causes delays on turnpike in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH — A two-car accident on the Maine Turnpike this afternoon is causing major delays, according to the Maine Turnpike Authority. The accident happened in the northbound lanes between exits 42 and 44 in Scarborough. The Maine Turnpike Authority asks that drivers on the turnpike use caution while passing one of the cars that […]
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Residents restore $75K to SAD 61 budget
The $26.6 million budget, to be voted on Tuesday, is the same budget Casco, Sebago, Naples and Bridgton residents rejected in June.