Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Wooden boat building is as immersed in Maine’s cultural heritage as Native American basketmaking, lumbering, potatoes and textiles, although that fact may be lost as Mainers focus on emerging new industries. Visitors to the National Folk Festival on Bangor’s waterfront park area, however, will have a chance […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Dozens, if not hundreds, of older people will start beefing up on bone mass soon as the University of Maine’s RSVP program launches more new “Bone Builders” classes at three new sites in Bangor and Bar Harbor. RSVP, the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, operated through the […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756, Rich Grant, 581-1971 ORONO — They’ve raised the bar on business studies at the University of Maine, specifically as the fall class of new MBA graduate students come to the Orono campus a week early for an unusual “business boot camp,” which includes the university’s MaineBound Challenge Course. Nearly three dozen […]
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Contact: Peter Rottmann at 866-2619; George Manlove at 581-3756 ORONO — The cavernous 360,000-square-foot complex on Ayers Island, which has housed lumber, paper and textile mills in the Basin Mills area of Orono, is the site of the first Ayers Island Contemporary Arts Festival, “Without Borders,” Aug. 21-Sept. 15. The event is described as a […]
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Contact: Ron Beard, Cooperative Extension educator, Hancock County, 1-800-287-1479, rbeard@umext.maine.edu ORONO, Maine
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Contact: Ron Davis, director of Orono Bog Boardwalk, 717-248-3797 until August 28; after then, 207-866-4785 or -4786 ORONO– Orono Bog Boardwalk Director Ron Davis announced on August 18th that the boardwalk has been offered $50,000 by an anonymous donor. Davis was recently informed of this offer by the donor’s Bangor attorney. To receive the funds, […]
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Contact: George Manlove at 581-3756 ORONO — A Portland software development firm has outfitted the University of Maine Business School’s computer lab with a new financial modeling program designed to give UMaine students a leg up on business planning. The donation from the Quantrix company of its Quantrix Modeler software and about 40 licenses for […]
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Contact: Rick Kersbergen University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 207-342-5971, richardk@umext.maine.edu ORONO, Maine — “Making hay this year has been quite a challenge,” says University of Maine Cooperative Extension Educator Rick Kersbergen. “The lack of a continued dry period has made dry hay harvesters a very frustrated group of farmers.” Extension’s online “Hay Directory” can help […]
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Contact: Richard Brzozowski, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Cumberland County office, 1-800-287-1471 (within Maine) ORONO, Maine — Speed may count in an upcoming farm tractor competition in Cumberland, but skill and safety will take top prize. Farmers and farm workers can now register to compete in one of three divisions in the 2004 Maine State […]
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Contact: Cathy Billings, Lobster Institute, 581-1443 or 581-2751 ORONO, Maine — “Well, I think we just cured a lobster.” With those words, he was hooked, and Herb Hodgkins has been a volunteer with the University of Maine and the Lobster Institute ever since for nearly thirty years. This year Herb, a resident of Hancock, is […]
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