Tom Bell

Portland Press Herald

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Published
May 15, 2012

St. Joseph’s College names new president

James Dlugos, of New Jersey, will take over as leader of the 100-year-old Standish school.
Published
May 6, 2012

Container services run into problems at Portland terminal

PORTLAND — Harry Turgeon is still waiting for the delivery of two snow tractors from Germany. The tractors are parked on a container ship that has been stranded in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia since the shipping company that operated the vessel shut down last week.
Published
May 6, 2012

Container ship service runs into problems in Portland

PORTLAND — Harry Turgeon is still waiting for the delivery of two snow tractors from Germany. The tractors are parked on a container ship that has been stranded in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia since the shipping company that operated the vessel shut down last week.
Published
May 4, 2012

U.S. maritime chief touts new barge design as Portland solution

PORTLAND — The nation’s top federal maritime official today said he believes that the moribund container service in Portland can be revived with the development of a new kind of hybrid vessel that the government has designed. David Matsuda, who heads the U.S. Maritime Administration, spoke about the vessel during a tour of the International […]
Published
May 1, 2012

Portland school district to beef up online filters

PORTLAND — Over the next two weeks, Portland’s school district will install filtering software on laptops issued to high school students, in order to block access to pornography, social networking sites and video streaming sites when the laptops are at home.
Published
April 14, 2012

Adults happy, teens dubious on new laws

PORTLAND — Jerrold Mason’s 16-year-old daughter, Rebecca, was killed in January in a crash in West Paris that police say involved an 18-year-old driver who had been drinking alcohol and texting with friends.
Published
April 14, 2012

Parents, teens say driving bill would have an immediate effect

PORTLAND — Jerrold Mason’s 16-year-old daughter, Rebecca, was killed in January in a crash in West Paris that police say involved an 18-year-old driver who had been drinking alcohol and texting with friends.
Published
April 13, 2012

Grieving dad: This puts ‘teeth into the law’

A West Paris man who lost his daughter in a crash involving a teen driver supports the changes.
Published
April 6, 2012

Report: Brewery sewage fee lapse was human error, not misconduct

An outside investigator finds no evidence that Shipyard Brewing Co. misled anyone about its use of water since 1996. Nor did he find evidence of public corruption.
Published
April 2, 2012

Sanctuary sought by many

PORTLAND — Just over two years ago, Alain Jean Claude Nahimana, 41, was a wealthy and influential man in Burundi, a tiny nation in central Africa. The son of the country’s former ambassador to Switzerland, he owned a public relations firm and had been a leader in the ruling political party.