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Football season opens Thursday

The Black Bear football season kicks off on Thursday Sept. 2 with a 7 p.m. Alfond Stadium game against Albany.  Ticket information is online at the UMaine athletics website.

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UMaine arts Web site

For more information about the arts at UMaine, visit the website that provides arts feature stories along with links to pages for arts facilities,  relevant events and information about academic programs in the arts.

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Town working on traffic light

Town of Orono officials report that they are working to resolve an issue with the traffic light at Park Street and College Avenue.  Due to an equipment failure, the light is operating through a temporary system, leading to some traffic delays.  They expect the light to be functioning properly by Thursday.

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Grad Student to Lead MDI Historical Society

Tim Garrity, a UMaine graduate student studying Maine history, has been named executive director of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.  Garrity, who lives in Somesville, served as president and CEO of Blue Hill Memorial Hospital from 2002-2008.

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Dill Featured in BDN Insect Report

Comments from Jim Dill of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty are included in a Tuesday Bangor Daily News report on the impact of this summer’s weather on Maine’s insect populations.  Dill says that the number of pests — especially mosquitoes — has been reduced this summer because of the dry and warm weather conditions

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Livingston Comments in Tree Health Story

Bill Livingston of the UMaine School of Forest Resources faculty was quoted extensively in a Tuesday Bangor Daily News story about the health of Maine trees considering the summer’s dry, warm weather.  Livingston points out that warmer winters also threaten trees, because those conditions are easier on insect populations.

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UMaine Study Finds Evergreen Trees A Source of Flu Drug

ScienceNews reports on a study by UMaine’s Nilmini Gedivinne, who found that some of the leaves of some evergreen trees have a starter material for the anti-flu drug Tamiflu. The finding was reported Aug. 26 at the American Chemical Society’s fall meeting.

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