Judy Pancoast’s “Weird Things Are Everywhere!” is one of five albums nominated for a Grammy award for Best Musical Album for Children.
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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Log cabin builders going strong after fire
SIDNEY — The model house is the office of Hilltop Log & Timber Homes, which relocated from Bowdoinham in January. The 24-year-old company will celebrate Christmas in Sidney for the first time this year. It’s also Hilltop’s first Christmas since a fire threatened to wipe out the entire business.
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Chaplain finds shame in criminal justice
WATERVILLE — The Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition might have a hard time getting the federal government to pursue an investigation into the 2009 death of a Maine prisoner, said the former chaplain for the state prison.
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Nobel winner cancels Mt. View visit for health concerns
THORNDIKE — Health problems prevented former Costa Rican president and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias from visiting Mt. View High School on Tuesday, as planned.
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Auburn site OK’d for marijuana dispensary
A Vienna couple get Planning Board approval to use the former Gobeil’s Furniture store in Auburn Plaza.
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Ex-speaker of House embraces new home
Glenn Cummings left a federal education post to direct the turnaround of a home for troubled teens.
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Maine pair developing East Coast liberal arts colleges website
Two Waterville alumni are entering their idea in a contest sponsored by Pepsi next month.
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EPA terminates grant for Oakland mill cleanup
The agency says that the town wasn’t eligible for a $200,000 brownfields grant it awarded in 2008.
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Woman to be jailed six months for death of husband in crash
Barbara Benoit, who insisted on pleading guilty to manslaughter, will be on probation four years.
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Binge drinking leads Colby to ban hard liquor in dorms
The college follows Bates and Bowdoin in a move to reduce alcohol poisoning.