Community Corner
COMING THURSDAY: Joe Portash's Widow
An interview with Adelaide Portash, whose husband, Joe, led Manchester's famous scam to loot more than $10 million from the township's treasury.
The next installment of a series on Joseph Portash, who helped fashion the township as a seasonal alternative for retirees who thought Florida was too far, and too hot for them to treat as a year-round home.
The story will apear on Manchester Patch at 6 a.m. on Thursday, March 21.
This installment deals with Portash's wife, Adelaide, a former mayor herself who has been living in Maine since her husband died. She was briefly interviewed by Manchester Patch.
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Here is an excerpt:
But peace and serenity, as well as anonymity, is the way Adelaide prefers it. It's the way she wants to keep it, even as she admits that the scandal that chased her family away from Manchester for good, and into Maine where Joe Portash kept a vacation home, still weighs on her.
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"I'm still affected by it," she said in a recent telephone interview.
