The Portland Press Herald reported Monday Cindy Blodgett, the former UMaine basketball star player who coached the Black Bears for four years, has been hired as an assistant coach at the University of Rhode Island. Joanne P. McCallie, a Brunswick native who coached Blodgett at UMaine and was in Maine this weekend to visit family […]
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The Bangor Daily News has an article about George Davis Carlisle, a UMaine graduate who recently donated $500,000 to Eastern Maine Medical Center’s CancerCare of Maine program, which is located in Brewer. Carlisle earned a forestry degree from UMaine and went on to work at Prentiss & Carlislie land management company, a family business of […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about recent UMaine graduate Roosevelt Boone, a former Black Bear football player, and the youth wellness and nutrition camp he will run next month on the UMaine campus. The Strong Mind, Strong Body camp is free and open to youth in the greater Bangor area whose families meet […]
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UMaine alumnus Silas Rossi, who owns a mountain-climbing guide business called Alpine Logic, was featured in a Bangor Daily News article. Rossi, who last week became the first Maine native to be certified through the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations – the highest professional award for mountaineering and skiing – was introduced to mountain […]
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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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