Farmers will have two chances to attend the annual Maine Vegetable and Fruit School in Portland on March 25, and in Bangor on March 26. The school, from 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m., will be held at Seasons Event and Conference Center in Portland and the Bangor Motor Inn Conference Center in Bangor. Offered by University of […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated March 11. The 15th Canadian/U.S. Lobstermen’s Town Meeting, hosted by the University of Maine Lobster Institute, will be held April 5–6 at the Westin Portland Harborview Hotel in Portland, Maine. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Two Nations, Two Fisheries: Shared Challenges, Shared Opportunities.” Lobstermen, dealers, processors, scientists and policymakers […]
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Registration is open for the Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference May 30–June 1 at the University of Maine. In July 1819, a majority of voters in the District of Maine chose to separate from Massachusetts. Maine became the 23rd state in the nation in March 1820. Conference organizers see the bicentennial as an opportunity to […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated Feb. 7. The 2019 Maryann Hartman Awards recognizing the inspirational achievements of Maine women will be presented to retired professor of economics and women and gender studies Susan F. Feiner of Portland, Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Criminal Division for the State of Maine Lisa Marchese Eames of Cumberland Center, […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,388 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2018 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,666 are from Maine, 669 are from 34 other states and 53 are from 25 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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The Maine Press Association, in collaboration with the University of Maine, has awarded 2018–2019 Maine Press Association Scholarships to UMaine undergraduate students Hailey Bryant of Gorham, Maine, and Nina Mahaleris of Orono, Maine. Bryant and Mahaleris are journalism majors. Bryant writes for The Maine Campus, the school’s independent student newspaper, and Mahaleris is completing an […]
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Morning Ag Clips previewed Flowering in the North, a conference for flower growers, Jan. 28–30 at the University of Southern Maine Abromson Center in Portland. The conference is sponsored by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Broadturn Farm and the Snell Family Farm. The event will focus on […]
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Morning Ag Clips advanced a free workshop on the process of making maple syrup from 9–11 a.m. Jan. 12 at the University of Maine Regional Learning Center in Falmouth. University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Southern Maine Maple Sugarmakers Association will partner to teach participants about identifying and tapping trees, collecting and boiling sap, […]
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Shawn Laatsch, president of the International Planetarium Society and director of the University of Maine’s Emera Astronomy Center, was quoted in a Sun Journal article about New Year’s Planetarium in Portland. For 10 years, the University of Southern Maine’s Southworth Planetarium has offered a New Year’s Eve event that features some of their newest and […]
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Mainers can expect significant environmental changes in the next two decades due to increased greenhouse gas emissions and patterns of variability in the climate system, say University of Maine researchers Sean Birkel and Paul Mayewski. And they’ve produced a report — Coastal Maine Climate Futures — to provide a base for coastal Maine planners to […]
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