WINDHAM — Shoppers at supermarkets and big-box stores in town take home at least 9,550 plastic bags per day.
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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Windham eighth-grader takes bag issue to council
WINDHAM — Shoppers at supermarkets and big-box stores in town take home at least 9,550 plastic bags per day.
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Portland Flea-For-All opens doors to hundreds on first day
PORTLAND — Where can you find a vintage suitcase, an acoustic guitar and a painting of a parrot, all in the same square foot?
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Ferry service for UNE students starts
SACO — A ferry service for commuters who go to the University of New England has begun a trial run.
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UNE testing Saco River commuter ferry
The service from Camp Ellis to the UNE’s Biddeford campus will be offered for the next three weeks at no cost to gauge interest.
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Violette gets 42 months
PORTLAND — The former head of the Maine Turnpike Authority was sentenced Friday to 3 years in prison for misusing as much as $230,000 in agency funds, concluding what prosecutors have called one of the most egregious cases of public corruption in the state’s history.
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Violette ‘mortified’ by thefts
PORTLAND — The former head of the Maine Turnpike Authority was sentenced Friday to 3 1/2 years in prison for misusing as much as $230,000 in agency funds, concluding what prosecutors have called one of the most egregious cases of public corruption in the state’s history.
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Violette to serve 3½ years in prison
The former head of the Maine Turnpike authority was sentenced today for using agency funds to pay for a lavish lifestyle that included five-star hotels and fancy restaurants.
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Flaws in the system
Interviews with current and former officials of the USDA, its investigative agencies, food safety experts and retailers reveal a gaping hole in the government’s food safety oversight related to the outbreak of salmonella from Hannaford beef.
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Midcoast funeral home offers ‘green’ cremation
Going “green” has been a way of living. Now it’s also a way of dying.