A Tuesday Bangor Daily News story describes the challenges the UMaine Black Bear hockey team is facing as it travels to Florida for a tournament scheduled to begin Wednesday.  The team’s Monday flight from Bangor was cancelled, so they traveled by bus to New Hampshire where they expect to get a charter flight from Manchester to Florida.  The Black Bears, ranked #9 in the country, will take on #6 Miami of Ohio in the tournament’s first round on Wednesday evening.

Thursday’s Bangor Daily News includes a report on a Tuesday arrest by UMaine police.  Alexander Nimon, a 25-year-old non-student was arrested in Memorial Union after allegedly assaulting two of the officers who were attempting to question him as part of their investigation into a series of laptop computer thefts on campus.  Police ask UMaine personnel to check their departmental laptop inventories to make sure none are missing, and to report any issues by calling 581-4040.

Comments from UMaine Prof. Rebecca Holberton, leader of the Gulf of Maine’s Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network, were included in a Maine Public Radio report about a new report documenting the migratory patterns of certain bird species off the Maine coast.  Holberton notes that the study is important to helping scientists identify the species that could be affected by offshore wind power generation technology.

A newly published article in the national Fish Farming News aquaculture newspaper about the MSX oyster disease outbreak in the Damariscotta River that threatens Maine’s million-dollar oyster industry included an interview with Debbie Bouchard, UMaine researcher and manager of the Maine Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory. Bouchard says that while this parasitic disease isn’t new to Maine, the size of the outbreak is unusual. MAAHL a collaborative service of UMaine’s Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, Cooperative Extension, and the Lobster Institute.

UMaine’s growing number out-of-state students was mentioned in a Connecticut Post story about the intersection of admission standards and high rates of accepted out-of-state students at the University of Connecticut. UMaine’s out-of-state student body is growing, according to the article, with about 17 percent of the student body coming from outside Maine.