Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 800-287-1471 FAIRFIELD, Me. — The fifth tour in University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s series of Goat Enterprise Farm Tours will take place on Saturday, July 21 from 10 a.m.-12 noon at Sunny Ridge Farm, 660 Chicken Street in Starks. This tour will focus on raising dairy and meat goats. UMaine Extension’s series […]
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Contact: Gleason Gray, 207-942-7396 STILLWATER, ME–University of Maine Cooperative Extension will once again hold its Moon Garden Celebration, a tradition of celebrating the July full moon, on Tuesday, July 24 at Rogers Farm on Bennoch Road in Stillwater. The 6 p.m. event will feature stories, songs and the Moon Garden, a garden with night-blooming plants […]
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Contact: Theresa McMannus, 581-2441 ORONO — Maine Education Commissioner Susan Gendron will open the 2007 Dropout Prevention Summer Institute hosted by the UMaine College of Education and Human Development on Monday, July 23. The institute, being held in room 100 of the D.P. Corbett Business Building and the Memorial Union July 23-24, is open to […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine will participate in the Sunday July 22 Maine Open Farm Day. More than 80 farms and farm museums around Maine will participate, hosting a variety of events aimed at celebrating Maine’s agriculture industry and its agriculture heritage. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 BANGOR — Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert of international stature who serves as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, will speak on U.S.-Iran relations in Bangor on Monday, July 23. Riedel will present “U.S.-Iran Relations: Looking into […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BELFAST — Lavon Bartel has been named interim director of the University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Bartel, who retired earlier this year after a decade as dean and director of University of Maine Cooperative Extension, will succeed Margaret Malmberg, who resigned to accept a professional position in […]
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Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine School of Marine Sciences professor Laurie Connell and her research team were recently recognized by the Pan American Marine Biotechnology Association (PAMBA) for their groundbreaking work involving the relative resistance of clams to the toxin associated with red tide. Connell and fellow researchers V.M. Bricelj, K. […]
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Contact: Rebecca Holberton (207) 581-2526; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — More than 100 ornithologists from across North America and the United Kingdom will be attending bird watching trips, sampling Maine cuisine, and, more importantly, sharing the latest breakthroughs in avian research at the Association of Field Ornithologists’ 2007 Annual Meeting from July 26 […]
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Contact: John Jemison, 207-581-3241, jjemison@umext.maine.edu STILLWATER, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will hold its annual Sustainable Agriculture Field day for farmers, crop advisors and other members of the agricultural community on Tuesday, July 17. It will take place at Rogers Farm, UMaine’s 100-acre forage and crops research facilityon Bennoch Road in Stillwater. This […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine recently showed area children through games and activities how their counterparts existed in early Maine from 1865 through 1940. This week, another group of children is learning about games, history and traditions of other countries, through “Passport […]
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