The Ellsworth American website has posted a video interview with retired University of Maine English professor Sandford Phippen by two filmmakers planning a documentary on the making of the 1980 movie “Pet Sematary,” based on Steven King’s 1983 horror novel of the same name. Phippen, who lives in Hancock County, where the movie was filmed, […]
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Comments from the University of Maine’s Jake Dyer, superintendent of the university’s J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center, which includes a 40-head dairy herd, were included in a Bangor Daily News article about the effect on Maine farmers who sell milk to Garelick Farms, which has announced it will close in January. Dyer said small, […]
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The Ellsworth American website has posted two videos from the Nov. 1–2 Hancock County Business Conference and Trade Show in Ellsworth, which was coordinated by University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon and UMaine Extension educator and cooperating professor of education Louis Bassano, who were interviewed for one video. A […]
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Comments by University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer were included in a New York Times article about the influence and infusion of out-of-state campaign money in the Maine Senate race to replace retiring U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican. Brewer said independent former Maine Gov. Angus King, whose campaign has received funding from […]
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University of Maine professor of political science Mark Brewer discussed several pre-election polling results with the Portland Press Herald. Just because polls suggest Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is gaining in popularity in the race against incumbent President Barack Obama, Brewer said, doesn’t mean Maine will become a battleground state. About the same-sex marriage referendum […]
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Jon Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal article about the price some businesses pay for taking public and controversial political stands. In the report about the backlash on Facebook by thousands of people who disagreed with a Levant apple orchard business that posted political signs, […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension Executive Director John Rebar was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News primer on the Nov. 6 referendum Question 2, which would authorize $7.8 million for a University of Maine animal and plant diagnostic center. The center, which would be biologically secure and allow for more sophisticated research, also would support […]
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Bloomberg Businessweek and the southern Maine’s coastal newspaper group Seacoastonline.com carried an Associated Press article about a study by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe that estimates the current annual medical costs of obesity in Maine were nearly $453 million in 2011 and could reach $1.2 billion over the next 20 years, if current trends […]
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Several news organizations, including Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and the Channel 7 (WVII) Nov. 5 morning newscast reported on the Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge organized by the University of Maine Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension this weekend in Waterville. Hundreds of students from throughout the […]
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Several news outlets, including Channel 5 (WABI), the Boston Globe website and the Bangor Daily News carried an Associated Press report on a study by UMaine economist Todd Gabe about the current and projected future costs of obesity in Maine, particularly as obese children transition into obese adults. He estimates the cost over the next […]
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