Week of January 16, 2017

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PORTLAND, MAINE -- 01/18/17 -- The Jewish Center on Ashmont Street in Portland, which also houses a preschool, was evacuated Wednesday morning after receiving an anonymous bomb threat. Roughly 40 students, ages three to five, and 18 staff members left the building for over an hour while police searched the building with a bomb-sniffing dog. Troy R. Bennett | BDN