UMaine News

Contact: Jill Coffren, state coordinator, phone 207-645-3248 ORONO — Bring the world home by hosting an exchange student through Maine 4-H Youth Development. International students arrive in July 2006.  Month-long delegates depart in August and year-long high school students depart in June 2007. “All kinds of families host exchange students successfully,” says Jill Coffren, state […]

Contact: Amy Witt, Extension horticulturist, 207-780-4205 or 1-800-287-1471 PORTLAND — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host Jeff Tarling, Portland Parks Manager and City Arborist, as he leads a tour of historic Deering Oaks Park in Portland.  The walk will take place on Friday, June 30, 2006 from 2-4 p.m.  The group will meet at […]

Contact: Mary Dinsmore, Pine Tree State 4-H Foundation, P (207) 581-3327, F (207) 581-1387 BANGOR, Me. — The Bangor Noon Kiwanis recently pledged $20,000 to support the activities of 4_H clubs in Penobscot County, establishing the Henry Page / Bangor Kiwanis Penobscot 4-H Fund. The fund honors Bangor dairyman Henry Page, who was very supportive […]

Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – More than two dozen faculty and staff members at UMaine recently took a two-day guided tour of several businesses and institutions in central and coastal Maine that are important to the state’s economy, as well as the University of Maine as it serves to protect and create jobs. Organized […]

Contact: Todd Saucier, President/Executive Director, UMaine Alumni Association, todd.saucier@umit.maine.eduBob Potts, Marketing & Creative Services Manager, UMaine Alumni Association, bob.potts@umit.maine.edu, (207) 581-2586 ORONO, ME  — The University of Maine Alumni Association has announced that Rachael Wardwell, Class of 2008, is the winner of the Alumni Association tuition raffle.   The UMaine Alumni Association sponsors the raffle […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Upward Bound will mark its 40th year at the University of Maine this month as 175 high school sophomores, juniors and seniors arrive Saturday, June 24 for the annual six-week academic and career exploration experience on campus. A federally funded educational opportunity program, Upward Bound provides […]

Contact: Len Kaye, 581-3483; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – It’s a long way between the people in rural Maine communities and national healthcare policy-makers in Washington, D.C., but a blue ribbon committee serving as eyes and ears for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be in Camden, Maine on June 11-13, looking […]

Contact: Vivianne Holmes, 800-287-1458 or 207-353-5550 ORONO –The Women and the Woods program will hold a “kitchen table” meetings for woman woodland owners all around Maine between now and December. The first session, on marketing, marking boundary lines, deeds, and soils in a woodlot, is scheduled for Thursday June 15. This event will be held […]

Contact: Associate Extension Professor Mark Hutchinson, 207-832-0343 ORONO–University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in partnership with the Maine Department of Agriculture, has published “Safe Disposal of Backyard Poultry Mortalities,” a bulletin with step-by-step instructions for composting poultry mortalities safely. Many Mainers keep poultry, and mortalities can occur even in well-cared-for flocks. Proper disposal of carcasses minimizes […]

Contact: Joseph Zydlewski (207) 581-2853; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — UMaine researchers Joseph Zydlewski, Michael Kinnison and Christopher Holbrook will continue to develop effective methods for assessing the migratory success of Maine’s endangered Atlantic salmon populations with the help of a $95,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Their project, which […]