Leslie Bridgers is the features editor for the Portland Press Herald, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and culture. She spent 10 years as a reporter, half of that time for the Portland Press Herald, covering the western suburbs of Portland, writing feature stories and working on special projects. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2014
With marketplace and skywalk, fresh look envisioned for part of the Old Port
Those are just some elements of a conceptual design for a block of six old buildings in the shopping area near the harbor.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2014
Freeport school district secession debate heats up
Signs advocating one side or the other have popped up all over town.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2014
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.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2014
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.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2014
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.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2014
It’s foliage peak week in central Maine
What’s expected to be an outstanding color season in Maine is underway.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2014
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.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2014
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.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2014
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.
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PublishedSeptember 5, 2014
Owls Head pound lands two white lobsters
At one in 100 million, albino lobsters are the rarest of them all. But
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