Contact: Kate Yerxa, (207) 581-3109 or kate.yerxa@maine.edu ORONO — With area school vacations starting next week, some parents and guardians may be wondering how to keep kids engaged and active during the time off. Kate Yerxa, University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s statewide educator for nutrition and physical activity, is available to discuss some tips. Family […]
Read more
Contact: Kristy Ouellette, 207-353-5550 Ext. 12 or 1-800-287-1458 in Maine LISBON FALLS — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H has announced partnership with New Mexico State Learning Labs in offering the new mobile-application math mini-game “Lobster Diver.” Originally created for students in grades 6-8, but fun for youth of all ages, the game is […]
Read more
Contact: Pamela St. Peter, 207-933-2100, Ext. 100 The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is accepting registrations for two daylong sessions on vegetable and fruit growing March 15 in Portland and March 16 in Bangor. The pre-registration deadline is March 1. The cost is $30 and includes lunch. Information, including registration, times and locations, and more […]
Read more
UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Maine Harvest for Hunger program will be a beneficiary of a $30,000 grant awarded to the Oxford Hills School District, according to a story in the Lewiston Sun Journal. The Maine Commission for Community Service awarded the grant to the school which will create a vegetable garden at the Roberts Farm Preserve. […]
Read more
The Lewiston Sun Journal reports UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Bryant Pond has received an anonymous $69,000 donation that will be used to build nine new bunkhouses over the next few years. Oxford County Cooperative Extension Educator Susan Jennings said most of the bunkhouses will be built by students in the building trade […]
Read more
Contact: Kathy Hopkins (207) 474-9622 (Skowhegan), Donna Coffin, (207) 564-3301 (Dover Foxcroft) ORONO — Warm days and cold nights this time of the year can wreak havoc on roofs, when ice dams form around the edge causing rooftop meltwater to back up and leak into attics or down interior walls. Two University of Maine Cooperative […]
Read more
The Bangor Daily News carried a column by Kate Yerxa, nutrition educator at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about community supported agricultural farm share opportunities. She explains that winter is the time to begin researching farms that sell shares to the community and how to determine which produce options make sense for families.
Read more
Saturday’s Lewiston Sun Journal reported on a Friday Bates College presentation by Jim Dill of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty, providing health officials, construction industry personnel, landlords and others with information about bedbugs and how to deal with them. A television story on the presentation is on the WCSH/WLBZ Web site.
Read more
James Dill, a pest management specials at UMaine Cooperative Extension, will be the keynote speaker Friday at a forum about bedbugs, according to the Lewiston Sun Journal. The forum, sponsored by the Lewiston-Auburn Public Health Committee, will be held in Chase Hall at Bates College starting at 8:30 a.m.
Read more
Two UMaine researchers were mentioned in a Working Waterfront column about the state’s oyster industry and an outbreak of the pathogen Haplosporidium nelson, known as MSX. The column, which was co-authored by Catherine Schmitt of the UMaine-based Maine Sea Grant, mentioned the work that Dana Morse of the Sea Grant Extension program, and Debbie Bouchard, […]
Read more