Outreach

AP covers annual Lobstermen’s Town Meeting

The Associated Press covered this year’s Canadian/U.S. Lobstermen’s Town Meeting April 5 and 6 in Portland. The University of Maine Lobster Institute hosted this year’s event, which had a theme of “Two Nations, Two Fisheries: Shared Challenges, Shared Opportunities” and attracted lobstermen, dealers, processors, scientists and others from both countries, according to the article. News […]

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Media announce Kids Can Grow registration open

The Penobscot Bay Pilot, VillageSoup and The Free Press of Rockland announced registration is open for Kids Can Grow, a program run by Maine Coast Heritage Trust and University of Maine Cooperative Extension that introduces children and parents to growing vegetables for healthy eating. Six hands-on gardening classes will be held in the community garden at the […]

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Nursing students collecting children’s pajamas for local hospital

A group of senior nursing students at the University of Maine are collecting children’s pajamas for a Bangor hospital to give to patients who need them. Caroline Bush of Holden, Maine; Brooke Hammond of Frankfort, Maine; and Lauren Martin and Jordan Richards, both of Bradley, Maine, are enrolled in NUR 452 — Community and Population […]

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Morning Ag Clips previews UMaine Extension media training for farmers

Morning Ag Clips previewed a University of Maine Cooperative Extension workshop focused on media training for farmers from 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. April 29 at Kennebec Valley Community College Harold Alfond Campus in Hinckley. The workshop will include best practices for working with media, telling a farm’s story in print and on social media, and practical […]

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Donations, volunteers sought for student-led Maine Day Meal Packout

Donations and volunteers are being sought for the Maine Day Meal Packout at the University of Maine on May 1. In food-packing events, campus and community volunteers box meals that are donated to food banks and community organizations that feed the hungry. “The broad goal of the Maine Day Meal Packout is to raise awareness […]

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Ellsworth American previews Lobstermen’s Town Meeting

The Ellsworth American previewed the 15th Canadian/U.S. Lobstermen’s Town Meeting, hosted by the University of Maine Lobster Institute April 5 and 6 at the Westin Portland Harborview Hotel. First held in 2004, the meeting alternates between the two countries each year. This year’s theme is “Two Nations, Two Fisheries: Shared Challenges, Shared Opportunities.” Lobstermen, dealers, […]

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Stoll to give talk April 9, Mount Desert Islander reports

Mount Desert Islander reported Joshua Stoll, an assistant research professor of marine policy at the University of Maine, will give a talk on sustainability in Maine’s lobster industry at 4:10 p.m. April 9 in McCormick Lecture Hall at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor as part of their Human Ecology Forum. The presentation […]

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Morning Ag Clips advances forest planting workshop

Morning Ag Clips advanced a workshop on how to plant a forest from 9 a.m. to noon April 26 at the Woodstock Town Office, co-hosted by the Oxford County Soil and Water Conservation District, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Oxford County, Maine Woodland Owners and the Maine Forest Service. The workshop will cover the basics […]

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