Contact: Sharon Hageman at 581-1853 ORONO — The University of Maine Financial Education Program, in collaboration with the UMaine School of Economics, will offer a series of workshops related to household personal finance. All workshops are free and open to the public. Topics include “Budgeting and Finance: Making Ends Meet,” March 19; ” Mortgage Primer: […]
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Contact: Jesse Moriarity, (207) 581-1427; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — High school students from three regions — Bangor, Portland and Castine — will assemble Thursday, Feb. 26, for the 2009 Junior Achievement Titan Challenge, a state competition in which students, with adult advisers from the business community, team up to create virtual businesses to see […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 AUGUSTA — On Wednesday, University of Maine faculty members presented the report, “Maine’s Climate Future: An Initial Assessment,” to Gov. John Baldacci. UMaine professors described their findings to the governor and his cabinet at that group’s weekly meeting. A State House session with news reporters followed the cabinet meeting. […]
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Contact: Amy Witt, Tel. 207-780-4205 or amyw@umext.maine.edu PORTLAND — Volunteers from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Cumberland County Master Gardener program are preparing for the group’s annual plant auction, scheduled for the Portland Flower Show on Sunday March 15. A silent auction is scheduled for noon-3:30, with a live auction and bargain table beginning […]
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Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 207-287-1471 ORONO, ME—University of Maine Cooperative Extension and several farm equipment dealers have joined forces to offer free “Slow-Moving-Vehicle”(SMV) signs to Maine farmers this year. These bright signs—fluorescent orange triangles bordered with reflective red—are mounted on the rear of farm tractors and implements traveling slower than 25 miles per hour in order […]
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Contact: Alan Davenport, 581-1341; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Maine will have a solar system visitor in the evening sky, which anyone can find from the backyard during the last week of February. Comet Lulin will be closest to planet Earth on Feb. 24, and viewable from backyards through binoculars, or telescopes like the Clark […]
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Contact: Audra Grady, 581-4194; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The second annual public Alternative Spring Break Art Auction is scheduled March 21 at Buchanan Alumni House to raise funds for an endowment to help with expenses for student service trips around the United States and internationally. More than 80 students — who raise the majority […]
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Contact: Sandra Sigmon, 581-2049; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Stress and hardship can bring out the best in people, or the worst. With that in mind as the economic crisis stresses so many people, the University of Maine President’s Council on Women is launching a campus-wide initiative to promote civility. In times of duress, civil […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A team of University of Maine scientists will visit the State House in Augusta Wednesday, Feb. 25, to present a report, “Maine’s Climate Future: An Initial Assessment,” to Gov. John Baldacci. The governor and the UMaine professors, representing the university’s Climate Change Institute and other units, will […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Gov. John Baldacci, Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Michael Michaud participated in a Friday morning University of Maine event announcing the commercialization of UMaine technology related to composites bridge construction. “At a time when good economic news is hard to find, we are pleased to have this […]
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