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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Sukhwinder Bali’s appointment as University of Maine Cooperative Extension assistant professor and University of Maine at Presque Isle assistant professor of sustainable agriculture was reported in Morning Ag Clips. She’ll develop and conduct educational outreach and applied research with an emphasis on Aroostook County; offer off-campus programs addressing educational needs of commercial agriculture; and teach […]
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VillageSoup reported Kathleen Ellis, who teaches English in the Honors College at the University of Maine, will lead a poetry workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. The Triggering New Poems workshop is set from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 13–17 at the downtown museum. Participants will expand their range of poetry writing […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is celebrating the 952 Master Gardener Volunteers who, combined, gave more than 35,000 hours of their time to a variety of educational and food security projects in 2016. The team supported 80 community gardens, 86 school gardens, 103 demonstration gardens and 56 programs involving 1,579 youth in horticulture activities this […]
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Boothbay Register reported Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle has been awarded a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Art Works: Creativity Connects grant was awarded to support a series of public programs in collaboration with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, according to the article. The programs will […]
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