Signs advocating one side or the other have popped up all over town.
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 paperโs features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
Judge dismisses part of free-speech suit against Portland
Protesters who have picketed outside an abortion clinic on Congress Street say they’ll seek damages for the time they were banned from a now-defunct buffer zone.
Mechanical malfunction cited in fatal hayride accident
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.
Freeport school isolates pupil, sends notes home after false Ebola rumor
School officials respond after a middle school student tells a high school student that her father was being tested for the disease.
It’s foliage peak week in central Maine
What’s expected to be an outstanding color season in Maine is underway.
Hope Elephants board explains why animals must return to Oklahoma
The board said Thursday eventually they would like to bring Rosie and Opal back to Maine.
Two elephants to leave Maine after tragic death of caregiver
Tom Laurita says his brother James probably fell in their corral and was killed when 7,500-pound Rosie tried to help him.
L.L.Bean heir’s foundation gives nearly $1 million to Maine nonprofits
The John T. Gorman Foundation is awarding grants to 62 organizations in all 16 counties.
Owls Head pound lands two white lobsters
At one in 100 million, albino lobsters are the rarest of them all. But
Westbrook officer claims harassment, retaliation after ticketing girlfriend of police colleague
Melissa May says she plans to sue the city for several human rights violations amid internal pressure to ‘rip up’ the speeding citation.