Effective communication with residents is crucial for many municipal governments, including the city of Bangor. Yet with many new tools such as social media and web-based communications, as well as more traditional methods, it can often be difficult to know what is working. This year, University of Maine Honors College student Jaymi Thibault worked with […]
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Maine Public reported the death of Maine’s pulp and paper industry is highly exaggerated, according to a preliminary report by Mindy Crandall, an assistant professor of Forest Management and Economics at the University of Maine. Crandall told those attending a Forest Resources Association meeting in Brewer that despite the closing of eight major biomass power […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a committee has been formed to plan the proposed Bangor Celtic Crossroads Festival for a September 2018 launch, and a Celtic music series is set to begin this month to help raise funds and awareness for the festival. Pauleena MacDougall, director of the Maine Folklife Center at the University of […]
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The Morning Sentinel reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension was mentioned during a Somerset County Commissioners meeting in Skowhegan. Board member Robert Sezak said that with the boom in the agricultural movement in Somerset County, he would like to “elevate the profile” of the UMaine Extension Service in the county, according to the article. […]
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This month, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension will celebrate farming in the state at the annual State of Maine Agricultural Trades Show. Residents are encouraged to visit the UMaine Extension booth during the show, Jan. 10–12 at the Augusta Civic Center. UMaine Extension offers a variety of farming resources, including several publications: Maine Family […]
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The University of Maine Center on Aging was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article on New Year’s resolutions for older adults. According to the article, many groups hope Maine baby boomers and seniors will consider volunteering for a worthy cause in 2017. The UMaine Center on Aging’s Encore Leadership program provides training and support […]
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University of Maine professors Jennifer Moxley and Beth Wiemann are scheduled to showcase their opera at the John Duffy Institute for New Opera in Norfolk, Virginia in March. During the week of March 12–17, the pair will workshop excerpts from “Until the War is Over,” an opera based on the novel “Bid Me to Live” […]
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Alaska Dispatch News posted a map from the Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer website in an article about a deep freeze predicted to descend on North America, Europe and Asia due to record-high temperatures across the Arctic. “Think of it like a seesaw,” said Matt Rogers, president of Commodity Weather Group in Bethesda, Maryland. When […]
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The Bangor Daily News penned a feature on Shawn Laatsch, director of the Emera Maine Astronomy Center and Jordan Planetarium. In January, Laatsch will become president of the International Planetarium Society, a coalition of planetarium directors, educators and employees with more than 700 members from 35 nations. As president, he’ll deliver lectures in Italy and […]
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The Bangor Daily News posted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension release about its 952 Master Gardener Volunteers providing more than 35,000 hours for 2016 educational, food security projects. Volunteers supported 80 community gardens, 86 school gardens, 103 demonstration gardens and 56 programs involving 1,579 youth in horticulture activities. People participating in food security projects […]
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