UMaine News

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4401, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum is offering home gardeners a chance on Nov. 8 to learn all they ever wanted to know about growing tomatoes. “Tomato City” co-owner Tom Roberts of Snakeroot Organic Farm in Pittsfield is the scheduled guest speaker at the museum’s […]

Contact: Charlene Herrick, 581-3204 or 800-648-0597 (in Maine) JONESBORO — The University of Maine’s Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station is hosting a public open house at the university’s new Wild Blueberry Research Facility at Blueberry Hill Farm on Route 1 in Jonesboro on Wednesday, Nov. 9. A ceremony begins at 11:30 a.m., to be followed […]

Contact: Karen Cole, 581-4704; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – For the first performance in the newly renovated Hauck Auditorium, the UMaine School of Performing Arts has conjured up an enchanting play for Halloween weekend, complete with seances, ghosts and mischievous mayhem. Written in 1941 by British playwright Noel Coward and directed by Marcia Joy Douglas, […]

Contact: Kathryn Hopkins, 207-474-9622 or 800-287-1495; or Dave Fuller, 207-778-3892 or 800-287-1478 SKOWHEGAN–Next time you

Contact: George Criner at (207) 581-3150; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, ME.— As part of a research project aimed at increasing demand for Maine maple syrup, a local restaurant will offer special maple syrup-based menu items this weekend. Researchers in the University of Maine’s Dept. of Resource Economics and Policy, Cooperative Extension, Maine Agricultural […]

Contact: Lenard Kaye, 581-3444; Noreen Peters, 941-2347 ORONO – For Maine children being raised by grandparents or relatives other than biological parents, cultural differences can seriously affect the quality of a family’s experience with community support services such as schools or social service providers. How social workers, guidance counselors, teachers and family members respond to […]

Contact: Kyriacos Markides, 581-2390; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A chance meeting by young sociologist Kyriacos Markides in the late 1970s with a Christian shaman in Cyprus halted research for a book on international terrorism but ignited a personal passion that has made the UMaine professor of sociology an internationally recognized authority on healers […]

Contact: Rick Kersbergen, 207-342-5971 ALBION–University of Maine Cooperative Extension will co-sponsor the 2005 Fall Forage Conference in the Besse Building (Town Office) in Albion on Oct. 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The conference will include an on-farm demonstration of soybean harvesting, drying and processing. UMaine Extension Dairy Specialist Gary Anderson will explain the […]

Contact: Lois Berg Stack, 207-581-2949 PORTLAND–All around Maine, arborists are at work in trees –utility company pruners are out in force along the state’s roads. Wes Davis, manager of Vegetation Management Operations at Central Maine Power, says that his crews are focused on pruning trees to clear utility lines in preparation for winter storms. ” […]

Contact: Liam Riordan, 581-1913; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Sometimes we learn as much about history by looking at details of the personal lives of historic characters as we do from cold, hard facts about historic events. The University of Maine History Department’s 11th annual conference for Maine middle and high school teachers on Oct. […]