Cooperative Extension

4-H Camp Grant in Newspaper

UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Woodstock will share in a $692,736 federal grant to implement physical activity and nutrition programs for every student in Oxford County, according to a news story in the Lewiston Sun Journal. The grant includes funding for an experiential education coordinator who will be an employee of the 4-H […]

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Report on Link Between Global Warming and Foliage

An Associated Press report, which included a comment from Esperanza Stancioff of UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant on the possible links between global warming and changes to the timing of the fall foliage season ran in several media outlets. USA Today included Stancioff’s comment that things are changing, but the question is how […]

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Newspaper Features Senior Companion Program

The Bangor Daily News ran a feature about the 30th anniversary of UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companion Program. Ann Swain, the statewide director of the program, was quoted about the volunteers who are connected with homebound senior citizens. Debra Eckart, the program administrator for Cooperative Extension, said in an interview the first site east of […]

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Extension Educator in Story About Timing of Fall Foliage

UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant climate change educator Esperanza Stancioff was quoted in an Associated Press wire story about the changes in timing to the arrival of fall foliage, and the possible link to climate change. Stancioff, who runs the “Signs of the Seasons” phenology project in which gardeners, 4-H programs, teachers, students […]

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Master Gardener Program Mentioned in Newspaper Report

Seacoast Online, the website for a number of newspapers in southern Maine and New Hampshire, reported on an open house held in South Berwick, Maine, noted the presence of a display by the UMaine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener program. The story said the UMaine table had a composting bin with worms, and children who were […]

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Mallory Interview in National ‘Foodie News’ Newsletter

The October national Foodie News newsletter, a publication of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington, D.C., included  an article about locally grown wheat making a comeback in New England. It included an interview with Ellen Mallory, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension sustainable agriculture specialist, who explained that interest in local wheat began as […]

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Website Notes UMaine Research into Produce Washes

In a post about the best way to wash fruits and vegetables, the website ivillage cited research by UMaine Cooperative Extension and department of food science and human nutrition. The report notes UMaine research found that distilled water is the most effective way to remove pesticides and microbes. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777

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UMaine 4-H Camp Featured in Lewiston Newspaper

UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Bryant Pond was the setting for a Lewiston Sun Journal story about Paris Elementary School children who spent two nights at the camp learning about the environment and technology. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777

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Water Quality Researchers Interviewed

The Central Maine Morning Sentinel interviewed two UMaine researchers in advance of an upcoming private well water quality issues conference in Connecticut which they will both attend. John Peckenham, director of the Maine Water Resources Research Institute at UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center, who will deliver a talk about analyzing contaminants in private drinking […]

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Jemison on climate change panel

John Jemison of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty was one of several experts discussing climate change at a Common Ground Fair public policy discussion on Saturday in Unity.  As reported in a Sunday Maine Today Media (Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) story, Jemison reported on his discussions with farmers about how […]

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