The Pride of Maine Black Bear Marching Band helped kick of the American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront Friday night. A photo was featured on the front page of Saturday’s paper and several more are part of an online slide show on the newspaper’s Web site.
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The Bangor Daily News, WLBZ and WABI covered Friday’s Maine Hello activities, during which some 800 students, faculty members, staff members and alumni helped UMaine’s new first-year students move into residence halls. The highlight of Fall Welcome Weekend, Maine Hello starts a series of weekend activities aimed at helping the new students get acclimated to […]
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Media outlets covered Friday’s move-in day as first-year students filled up the reisdence halls in advance of the first day of classes, which is Monday, Aug. 30. WABI interviewed Vice President for Student Affairs Robert Dana and reported on the move-in process. The Bangor Daily News noted a 2 percent increase in this year’s first-year […]
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University of Maine engineering student Ashley Bailey is interviewed about Maine’s farming tradition in a story about the Union Fair.
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The Lewiston Sun Journal highlights a statewide program through which the UMaine Cooperative extension distributes vegetables to food pantries, senior lunches, and outside some Cooperative Extension offices. Barbara Murphy, an Extension educator, says about one in five Maine families aren’t sure where their next meal is going to come from.
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The Bangor Daily News reports on presentation by UMaine Cooperative Extension Researcher Dave Handley and members of the Extension’s Master Gardeners Program. The presentation, which includes information about maintaining healthy crops, is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31 at the Rogers Farm in Stillwater.
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An early spring and a dry, hot summer has led to an early appearance of crops such as pumpkins, UMaine Cooperative Extension Vegetable Specialist Mark Hutton says.
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UMaine Political Scientist Amy Fried tells the Bangor Daily News it isn’t easy to read the meaning behind Democratic gubernatorial candidate Libby Mitchell’s decision to pull out of Thursday morning’s candidates debate in Bangor. Mitchell said earlier this week she would not participate in the debate because not all of the independent candidates had been […]
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Contact: Margaret Nagle (207) 581-3744 The Gulf of Maine waters are cooler, fresher and lower in nitrate than they were 30 years ago, causing a nutrient shift that has potential implications for the structure of the planktonic ecosystem, according to oceanographers at the University of Maine. Based on recent oceanographic observations, coupled with a 50-year […]
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Contact: Margaret Nagle (207) 581-3745 Contrary to popular perception, forest biomass is not waste. In today’s growing bioenergy industry, forest biomass is better described as “energy wood.” Usually energy wood includes the tops, limbs and stems of poor form or size removed during harvest. But if market conditions are right, a growing energy wood market […]
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