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Leslie Bridgers

Portland

Native Connecticutian, Bowdoinite, Woodfords Cornerer, editor of @MaineToday, features editor for @PressHerald

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  • 2 weeks ago | pressherald.com | Leslie Bridgers

    The Porthole Restaurant and Pub in Portland. Jill Brady/Staff Photographer Farmers markets are in full force. Decks and patios are open for business. Tourists are dropping Benjamins on lobster rolls without batting an eyelash. If this is when Maine’s food scene shines brightest, what is everyone washing it down with? Locally made beverages have been multiplying as the craft beer industry diversifies its offerings to include hard seltzers, canned cocktails, nonalcoholic options and THC-infused drinks.

  • 3 weeks ago | sunjournal.com | Leslie Bridgers

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  • 3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Leslie Bridgers

    Jun. 2—Kyle Courcy was living in Massachusetts in 2022 when he and a friend decided they wanted to try to play every mini golf course in the state. Just three years later, Courcy placed among the top 16 of the 42 mini golfers who qualified for the World Adventure Golf Final in Portugal in May. AdvertisementNow, Courcy, who grew up in Norway and moved to back to Maine last year, is ranked 53rd in the world.

  • 1 month ago | pressherald.com | Leslie Bridgers

    After five years, Chez Rosa, a French bistro in Kennebunkport, is moving across the bridge to a new space in Kennebunk. The new location will allow the restaurant to expand, open a patio and provide parking for both its customers and employees, said Yazmin Saraya, a pastry chef who owns the restaurant with her husband, Chef Kyle Robinson. The space, at 173 Port Road, is the former home of Old Vines Wine Bar, which closed after 10 years on May 3.

  • 1 month ago | pressherald.com | Leslie Bridgers

    From what Jack Selig saw of Maine on a family vacation to Bar Harbor as a teenager, it was both similar to his home state of Arkansas in ways he liked — the natural beauty and access to the outdoors — and different enough that going to college here would offer something new. As a student at Bowdoin, Maine only grew on him, and by his junior year, he was already thinking it would be fun to move to Portland after graduation.

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