The 3rd Annual Children’s Book Drive to benefit Literacy Volunteers will be held from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. June 23, at Briar Patch Book & Toy Store, 27 Central St., Bangor. The rain date is June 25. All proceeds and books collected will benefit Literacy Volunteers of Bangor, a program aimed to help adults […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H in Oxford County hosts its June Jamboree Livestock Clinic from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 13, and from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday, June 14, at Fryeburg Fairgrounds, 1154 Main St., Fryeburg. The clinic, for 4-H club members and leaders, offers sessions on sheering sheep, showing market […]
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WABI reported on the 47th annual Special Olympics summer games that was hosted at UMaine, where 1,500 athletes came together to compete. The competition began on June 4 with bowling and unified bowling. June 5 consisted of more bowling, bocce competitions, relays and time trials. June 6 events included track and field, which ended June […]
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Kate Garland, a horticulturist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension program, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article focused on various hunger relief programs happening across the state of Maine. “Farmers don’t have time to donate their extra produce, during market. It’s that time of year when they don’t have a spare moment,” […]
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The Sanford Harmony program, an early-childhood social skills program, was cited in an Education Week blog post about a $20 million anonymous donation made to the San Diego-based National University. The University of Maine is one of nine university partners around the country that is promoting the program and training teachers through a professional development […]
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The Bangor Daily News advanced a Bangor exhibit of the pop-up art series “The Lexicon of Sustainability.” The University of Maine Office of Sustainability and Bangor Area Food Council were selected as curators of the exhibition designed to spur community dialogue to help strengthen local food systems. “The whole [pop-up show] series is focused on […]
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Tracy Vassiliev, a middle school science teacher at the James E. Doughty School in Bangor, and David Neivandt, a University of Maine professor, associate vice president for research and graduate studies, and director of the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, co-wrote Let Them Eat Cake … OE-Cake!, which was published in the April/May […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) spoke with George Kinghorn, director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art, about the current exhibit “Andy Warhol: Photographs & Screenprints.” The museum is featuring dozens of works from its permanent collection by well-known American pop artist Andy Warhol through June 6. “This is really nice because you really […]
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Enjoy the taste of summer fruits and vegetables all year long by taking the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Preserving the Harvest workshop 1–4 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, at the Franklin County UMaine Extension office, 138 Pleasant St., Farmington. UMaine Extension staff will lead the workshop, which will include hands-on, USDA-recommended food preservation methods, including […]
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The “Something Funny’s Going on Here” exhibit will open with a reception 5–8 p.m. June 19, at the H. Alan and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Sixteen of Maine’s prestigious artists have pieces inspired by humor or irony in the exhibit, which runs until Aug. 14. Participating […]
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