Machias Valley News Observer reported new and transfer students who arrived at the University of Maine at Machias last weekend participated in an annual UMM tradition of kicking off the school year with a community service project. “Last year we did something at the veterans retirement home, and one year we did some work on […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported two families have been selected for houses in Old Town through Habitat Bangor’s home ownership program. The city of Old Town donated two houses to the program last year, according to the article. One of the homes has been demolished to make way for a new one, and the other […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported on a joint project between the University of Maine and College of the Atlantic to study small- and medium-scale honey and maple syrup production in the state. The three-year project was awarded $498,462 by the United States Department of Agriculture in May. Jessica Leahy, a professor in UMaine’s School of Forest […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers will celebrate the growing season with a field day 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9 at Rogers Farm Demonstration Garden in Old Town. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature garden workshops, activities, live music and homemade […]
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Mainebiz reported 32 summer fellows, including five University of Maine students and one University of Maine at Machias student, participated in the MDI Biological Laboratory 2017 summer fellowship program in research and lab facilities across the state. Twenty of the participants were supported by Maine INBRE, a network of 13 Maine educational and research institutions […]
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Photos of students power washing, scraping and painting buildings in Old Town during the University of Maine’s Welcome Weekend Day of Service were featured in the Aug. 31 print edition of The Penobscot Times. More than 2,000 first-year UMaine students were expected to volunteer for community projects as part of the eighth annual event. The […]
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Members of the University of Maine community are encouraged to participate in the Outdoor Nation Campus Challenge to become the “most outdoorsy” school in the country. The challenge is a competition where more than 90 schools nationwide go head-to-head to participate in the most outdoor activities from Sept. 18 through Oct. 15. Each school gains […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers will celebrate the growing season with a field day 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9 at Rogers Farm Demonstration Garden, 914 Bennoch Road, Old Town. The field day will feature garden workshops, activities, live music and homemade food. Workshop topics include growing grapes and cutting flowers for […]
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VillageSoup reported on recent water samples taken at Lincolnville Beach to test for bacteria. Samples are drawn from the ocean once a week on Tuesdays at Lincolnville Beach for the Maine Healthy Beaches Program, according to the article. The samples are tested at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Waldoboro, and results are released […]
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Three lectures on Judaism and anti-Semitism will be offered Sept. 7–9 at the University of Maine and Congregation Beth Abraham in Bangor by Roger Brooks, Connecticut College professor emeritus of religious studies. All lectures are free and open to the public. Brooks is a widely published scholar of both biblical history and the Holocaust, and […]
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