Some 1,895 people, mostly high school seniors and their family members, are registered for the University of Maine’s Monday, Aug. 22 Summer Tour 2011 open house event. Modeled after a similar open house last August, Summer Tour 2011 represents a fresh approach to the traditional open house. Prospective students and their families will have ample […]
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about the potential for the synthetic drug known as “bath salts” to be an issue at UMaine during the coming academic year. The story includes comments from Vice President for Student Affairs Robert Dana, police chief Roland LaCroix and Lauri Sidelko, director of Alcohol and Drug Education Programs.
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There were several reports from Sunday’s Mitchell Institute scholars lunch, which was held at UMaine’s Wells Conference Center according to the Bangor Daily News. Senator George Mitchell was the keynote speaker. Bangor television station WABI noted the institute has awarded more than $8.2 million in scholarships to more than 1,800 Maine high school graduates since […]
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Retired UMaine police sergeant Harold Kennedy died on Thursday Aug. 4 at the age of 74. An Old Town native, Kennedy was a popular “good, old-fashioned police officer,” as described by Officer Deborah Mitchell.
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) on Monday evening carried a report about the progress of the UMaine bicycle path rehabilitation project that is replacing and upgrading the paved paths through university forests between the campus and Old Town. Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756
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Media reported Thursday and Friday the news that a jury found a North Berwick man guilty in the hit-and-run death of a UMaine student in 2010. Jordyn Bakley, a 20-year-old Camden resident, died in January 2010. Portland television station WCSH and Bangor’s WABI carried stories. The Bangor Daily News interviewed Bakley’s father. Foster’s Daily Democrat […]
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Bangor television station WABI reported on this week’s gathering of alumni from the UMaine Class of 1944. The group has donated more than $14 million through the years, including funds for the Class of 1944 Hall which houses UMaine’s music department, and the revamped Bear’s Den pub. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Mainebiz is reporting that developer Campus Crest Communities Inc. is planning to build a $25 million property in Orono near the UMaine campus. Campus Crest, which was founded by UMaine graduate Michael Hartnett, first announced the project in May 2009. The development will be ready by 2012-13, according to a news release from the company. […]
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Comments from UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Student Robert Dana were included in a Kennebec Journal article about a report that the Maine Republican Party has discovered cases of voter fraud among college students in Maine. Dana told the newspaper that UMaine’s nonpartisan get-out-the-vote program, UVote, has boosted voter participation on […]
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July 25, 2011 The University of Maine has completed and reopened Phase 1 of the bike path reconstruction and has now closed a second section, from Stillwater Avenue to the Witter Farm, for about five weeks to accommodate the work. During reconstruction, the section of the bike path will be closed to all pedestrian and […]
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