Contact: Contact: Kyle McCaskill, UMaine Cooperative Extension, (207)581-3185 or 800-287-0274 ORONO–You don’t need a lot of money to begin increasing your net worth. University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a home-study course for beginning investors with small dollar amounts. “Investing for Your Future: A Cooperative Extension System Basic Investing Home Study Course “was developed […]
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Contact: Contact: Anna Saar, 207-743-6329 or 800-287-1482 Note: a photo is available upon request AUGUSTA–Denise Lacasse of Lewiston has been honored by the Home Care Alliance of Maine for her outstanding commitment and compassion as a Senior Companion volunteer. In November, Lacasse e received the Home Care Volunteer of the Year award at the Blaine […]
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Contact: Contacts: Lud Hallman, 581-1249; Marilyn Brossmer (207) 374-2516; George Manlove, 581-3756 Editors’ note: Cast members with major roles and their home towns are listed in this release. Communities include Bangor, Bar Harbor, Blue Hill, Ellsworth, Herman, North Penobscot, Orland, Orono, Trenton, Southwest Harbor, Sullivan, and West Tremont and Wiscasset. ELLSWORTH – If there is […]
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Contact: Contacts: Linda Godfrey or Wanda Westley, 581-3414; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – In a state like Maine, where many business leaders rise through the company ranks with excellent job skills but often little training in managing people, the learning curve can be expensive in terms of time and money. Over the last 20 years, […]
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Contact: Media Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli (207) 561-3352 BANGOR — Brighten up your child’s February vacation at the second annual University of Maine Museum of Art Winter Art Camp, an in-depth art experience held at the Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. The camp will run from Monday, Feb. 20 through Friday, Feb. 24 for students […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine Professor of Chemistry Jayendran C. Rasaiah has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Rasaiah, who also is a cooperating professor of physics at UMaine, specializes in physical, theoretical and computational chemistry and chemical physics. He was cited by APS for […]
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Contact: Contacts: Matthew Rodrigue, 774-487-8396; Richard Grant, 581-1971; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — As winter descended on the Canadian Maritimes last month, the timing for two University of Maine students and a recent graduate couldn’t have been better to introduce at an international business plan competition a marketable proposal to improve the efficiency of home […]
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Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777; Laurie Connell 581-2470 Facial numbness, tingling in the arms and legs, nausea, dizziness — and those are the milder symptoms. Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, or PSP, is a very real danger in the state of Maine. Resulting from the consumption of shellfish tainted with toxins found in the algae that cause […]
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Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777 Anyone who has ever had the opportunity to work with Electrical and Computer Engineering professor John Vetelino knows that “Vet” is a man on a mission. Exceptionally focused and decidedly direct, Vetelino discovers a need, establishes a goal, takes aim, and fires — and it’s a rare target that escapes […]
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Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777; Bob Wagner 581-2903 ORONO – When commercial landowners began selling off massive tracks of the state’s northern forests in the late 1990’s, many Mainers wondered what the change in ownership would mean to access, land management, and conservation. Over three million acres, representing roughly one-third of Maine’s commercial forest lands, […]
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