The Portland Press Herald profiled Kenneth Priest II, the owner of Augusta-based composites manufacturer Kenway Corp., who graduated from UMaine with a degree in civil engineering. Kenway has worked with UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center on construction projects, including the center’s Bridge-in-a-Backpack technology. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Brian Gaine, a former UMaine football player who is now the director of player personnel for the Miami Dolphins, was the subject of a profile in the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. Gaine, a tight end who played under former coach Kirk Ferentz, recalled enjoying pregame scouting and video work he did to prepare for […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece by Ernie Hilton, who has an engineering degree from UMaine, about the future of the Land Use Regulation Commission. Hilton has an engineering and legal practice in Madison. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Worcester Telegram & Gazette has a feature about UMaine graduate Josee Vachon, a prominent Franco American folk singer-songwriter. Vachon graduated from UMaine with a degree in Romance Languages and told the newspaper about a concert she attended as a 20-year-old UMaine student during which she found herself singing along with the songs in French. […]
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Organic vegetable farmer and UMaine alumna Lisa Turner was profiled in a Portland Press Herald story about a new cookbook, for which Turner wrote the introduction, about how to eat local. Turner, a New Jersey native, majored in soil science and civil engineering, and now owns a farm in Freeport. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Portland Press Herald reported on Ashely Hebert, the UMaine graduate starring in ABC television’s “The Bachelorette.” A contestant on the most recent season of “The Bachelor,” Hebert is a Madawaska native who is studying to become a dentist.
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UMaine alumnus Seth Poplaski was interviewed for a story in the Waterville Sentinel about a Maine Credit Union League effort to attract young people by providing financial education. Poplaski, a 2009 graduate with a journalism degree, was one of 26 people who applied for a year-long position with the league as a spokesperson promoting Maine’s […]
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The website Hollywood Life has a story about 2006 UMaine alumna Ashley Hebert, the star of the upcoming reality series “The Bachelorette.” According to the story, Hebert had dated UMaine alumnus Joe Olszewski, a sociology major who graduated in 2005, following her graduation. The two broke up and he moved to California, but Olszewski died […]
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The Kennebec Journal has a story about Harold “Tank” Violette, a UMaine alumnus and former football player who will be inducted Sunday into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. Violette, who was inducted in 2003 into the UMaine Sports Hall of Fame, was a longtime football coach at Belfast and Winslow high schools, and also […]
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UMaine alumna Ashley Underwood, who finished fourth in the recently completed season of the CBS reality show “Survivor: Redemption Island,” discussed her future plans in a Kennebec Journal column. Underwood told Zach Dionne, also a UMaine graduate who is an entertainment editor for AOL’s PopEater, she plans to gain a fitness certification and will soon […]
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