UMaine News

A national program to help farmers, farmworkers and farm family members with chronic health conditions or disabilities is now up and running in Maine, the Bangor Daily News notes.

The Morning Sentinel notes Kate McCarthy of UMaine’s Cooperative Extension will speak Tuesday about how to safely preserve food.

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine System Board of Trustees today authorized the University of Maine to conclude negotiations on a 20-year energy agreement that could potentially save the university $13 million- $17 million while reducing the university’s carbon footprint by more than 40 percent. UMaine has been negotiating […]

UMaine will host at 2 p.m. Thursday a conference about a $1.4 million U.S. Department of Commerce grant which will improve broadband access in Washington County. The Bangor Daily News reported Monday on the grant to Machias-based Axiom Technologies.

A Maine Sunday Telegram report on issues related to arsenic and groundwater in Maine notes that UMaine biochemist Julie Gosse is leading a study investigating the potential link between well water arsenic and asthma.  More information is in an April UMaine news release announcing a grant to support that study.

Geral Coulombe’s “Maine Observer” column in the Sept. 12 Maine Sunday Telegram described life as a newly-married student and Korean War veteran at UMaine in the 1950s.  Coulombe, a retired school administrator who lives in Connecticut, wrote about the “South Apartments,” mostly occupied by married students but also by some faculty members.  Those professors included […]

The New York Times Sunday Sept. 12 “City Room” blog detailed this summer’s analysis of the remains of an 18th century ship, discovered in a New York City landfill near the World Trade Center site.  UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess has been one of the lead researchers working to determine the origin of that wreckage, […]

Contact: Corie Washow, (207) 353-5550 or 1-800-287-1458, or corie.washow@umaine.edu ORONO — A national program aimed at helping farmers, farm workers and farm family members with chronic health conditions or disabilities continue to farm successfully and live independently is now available in Maine through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Maine AgrAbility, a collaboration between UMaine, […]

Contact Catherine Schmitt (207) 581-1434, catherine.schmitt@umit.maine.edu HOLDEN – The restoration of Sedgeunkedunk Stream will be discussed and celebrated on Friday, Sept. 17, at Fields Pond Audubon Center. The collaborative, community-based project, including removal of two dams and construction of a natural rock-ramp fishway, is serving as a model for other small-scale stream restoration efforts throughout […]

Oakland Elementary School teacher Shelley Moody has been named Maine’s 2011 Teacher of the Year.  State Education Commissioner Angela Faherty presented the award Friday at Williams Elementary School, where Moody teaches third and fourth grade.  She earned a master’s degree in literacy from UMaine.