Contact: Sarah Joughin, (207) 581-3423 ORONO – The University of Maine will hold its 23rd annual Culturefest Saturday, Nov. 6, a festival of cultural exhibits, traditional singing, dancing, clothing and cuisine from around the world. Held annually in the UMaine Field House from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Culturefest attracts more than 1,000 visitors from […]
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Comments from Bob Rice of the UMaine School of Forest Resources faculty are included in an Associated Press story about Louise Jonaitis, a Portland investor who is working to revitalize four forest-products manufacturing businesses around Maine. The story appears in several newspaper, including the Detroit Free Press. It was on the front page of Saturday’s […]
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A Lewiston Sun Journal story describes Saturday’s Farmington meeting of the Extension Maine Homemakers, a UMaine Cooperative Extension program of 100 members that celebrated the organization’s 60th anniversary at its annual convention. Cooperative Extension executive director John Rebar addressed the group on Saturday, and his remarks about Extension and the homemakers group are featured in […]
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Mark Brewer from the UMaine political science faculty provided analysis for three weekend stories about Maine political issues. An Associated Press report looked at information about early voting among Maine Democrats and Maine Republicans. He was also quoted in a Bangor Daily News report about the races for seats in the Maine Senate, and in […]
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U.S. Trotting Association news director Ellen Harvey blogged on Friday about UMaine’s Equinet Management Cooperative, which plans its annual “Trick or Trot” Halloween activity for children, Saturday Oct. 30 from 5-7 p.m. ay Witter Farm. The blog also describes the university’s UMares program that features ten Standardbred mares, housed at the UMaine farm.
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The Portland Press Herald story about poll numbers in Maine’s gubernatorial race included comments from Kenneth Palmer, UMaine political science professor emeritus. Palmer said with Republican candidate Paul LePage’s numbers steady, election watchers are waiting to see if either Democrat Libby Mitchell or Independent Eliot Cutler will make a move in the polls.
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer is quoted in an Associated Press story about absentee balloting in the Maine governor’s race. Brewer told the AP based on the numbers of returned absentee ballots so far, Republicans are holding their own against Democrats.
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The rise of university club football teams in the Northeast was highlighted in a New York Times story. UMaine’s club football team was mentioned in the story as being in a league with teams from Boston University, Vermont and Clarkson. The story also includes an anecdote about the Clarkson team’s trip to Orono for a […]
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The annual Sen. George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability given Thursday by Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom was covered by several media outlets, including WABI and WLBZ. Ostrom spoke about sustaining natural resources in a rapidly changing world.
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The Kennebec Journal wrote a preview of the documentary film “Her Game,” about the 1997-98 UMaine women’s basketball team which featured current UMaine head coach Cindy Blodgett. The documentary will have two showings Saturday, the first at 10 a.m. at the Penobscot Theater in Bangor and the second at 3:30 p.m. at Railroad Square Cinema […]
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