Dr. Laurie B. Mascolo is set to lead Portal Elementary School through the 2016-17 school year as interim principal, after an Aug. 11 vote by the Bulloch County Board of Education. Mascolo served as Portal Elementary’s assistant principal for almost four years. Beginning in October 2012 she was shared by two schools, serving part-time at Portal and part-time as a second assistant principal at Julia P. Bryant Elementary, but then was made the full-time assistant principal at Portal in July 2014.