WESTBROOK — The Mission Possible Teen Center and A Company of Girls in Portland are two of 17 after-school programs scrambling to fill a funding gap after learning that they wouldn’t be getting any help from the state.
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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Gorham OKs fireworks on New Year’s, 4th and Saturdays
The new ordinance also requires people to get a town permit before using fireworks, and prohibits their use within 150 feet of any structure.
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Elite Women: Wangari-Muriuki survives strange finish
Margaret Wangari-Muriuki stops just shy of the finish line but hangs on to win by six-tenths of a second.
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USDA names more stores that sold recalled beef
Brackett’s Market in Bath and Shop N’ Save stores in Gray and Dover-Foxcroft, as well as grocers in six other states, may have sold contaminated meat.
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Man planned to break up with girlfriend before fatal shooting in Waldoboro
WALDOBORO — Norman Benner had told his mother he wanted to break up with Arline Lawless, his girlfriend of four months, before a shooting last weekend that killed him and left her wounded.
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Man planned to break up with girlfriend before fatal Waldoboro shooting
WALDOBORO — Norman Benner had told his mother he wanted to break up with Arline Lawless, his girlfriend of four months, before a shooting last weekend that killed him and left her wounded.
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Police: No third party in Waldoboro shooting
A 34-year-old man was killed and a woman was wounded in the incident.
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Meat supplier Cargill declines to name stores besides Hannaford that received tainted beef tied to salmonella
Most of the near 30,000 pounds of ground beef recalled Sunday by Cargill Beef was supplied to Hannaford Supermarkets, but it remained unclear Monday afternoon what other stores sold the meat that’s linked to a salmonella outbreak last month.
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Meat supplier Cargill declines to name stores besides Hannaford that received tainted beef tied to salmonella
Most of the near 30,000 pounds of ground beef recalled Sunday by Cargill Beef was supplied to Hannaford Supermarkets, but it remained unclear Monday afternoon what other stores sold the meat that’s linked to a salmonella outbreak last month.
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Police probing fatal shooting of Waldoboro man
A woman remains hospitalized in serious condition with gunshot wounds at Maine Medical Center.