Contact: Charles Scontras, 799-3469; William Murphy, 581-4124; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – Documents now available in the University of Maine’s Fogler Library detail the struggle and sacrifice of 19th and 20th century worker advocates who protested 14-hour workdays and children as young as age 12 quitting school to work in factories. In those times, employees […]
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Contact: Leisa Preble, 581-1016 ORONO – The four-day National Conference and Summer Academy sponsored by UMaine’s Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research begins Sunday, June 25, with the arrival of more than 175 teachers, professors and researchers, all looking to explore ways to make science and math more appealing to middle and secondary school […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Pushaw Partners, a collaboration of UMaine Cooperative Extension, the Greater Pushaw Lake Association, and the Penobscot County Soil and Water Conservation District invites Pushaw Lake residents to take a cruise on the Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute’s pontoon boat, Melinda Ann on July 4 and 5. The Melinda […]
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Contact: Susan Jennings, Extension Educator, P (207) 743-6329, F (207) 743-0373, susanj@umext.maine.edu SOUTH PARIS, ME — The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation recently pledged $25,000 to support the wide array of 4-H activities in Oxford County. At the beginning of the year, area leaders embarked on a campaign to endow UMaine Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program […]
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Contact: Jill Coffren, state coordinator, phone 207-645-3248 ORONO — Bring the world home by hosting an exchange student through Maine 4-H Youth Development. International students arrive in July 2006. Month-long delegates depart in August and year-long high school students depart in June 2007. “All kinds of families host exchange students successfully,” says Jill Coffren, state […]
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Contact: Hugh Curran, 581-2609 or 667-7170 (or hugh.curran@umit.maine.edu)George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – The UMaine Peace Studies Program has scheduled a nationally recognized environmentalist, naturalist and author and an international authority on Eastern Orthodox Christianity as main speakers for its 2006 Spirituality, Ecology and Peace conference and retreat July 15. Keynote speakers are Terry Tempest Williams […]
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Contact: Mary Dinsmore, Pine Tree State 4-H Foundation, P (207) 581-3327, F (207) 581-1387 BANGOR, Me. — The Bangor Noon Kiwanis recently pledged $20,000 to support the activities of 4_H clubs in Penobscot County, establishing the Henry Page / Bangor Kiwanis Penobscot 4-H Fund. The fund honors Bangor dairyman Henry Page, who was very supportive […]
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Contact: Amy Witt, Extension horticulturist, 207-780-4205 or 1-800-287-1471 PORTLAND — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host Jeff Tarling, Portland Parks Manager and City Arborist, as he leads a tour of historic Deering Oaks Park in Portland. The walk will take place on Friday, June 30, 2006 from 2-4 p.m. The group will meet at […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – More than two dozen faculty and staff members at UMaine recently took a two-day guided tour of several businesses and institutions in central and coastal Maine that are important to the state’s economy, as well as the University of Maine as it serves to protect and create jobs. Organized […]
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Contact: Todd Saucier, President/Executive Director, UMaine Alumni Association, todd.saucier@umit.maine.eduBob Potts, Marketing & Creative Services Manager, UMaine Alumni Association, bob.potts@umit.maine.edu, (207) 581-2586 ORONO, ME — The University of Maine Alumni Association has announced that Rachael Wardwell, Class of 2008, is the winner of the Alumni Association tuition raffle. The UMaine Alumni Association sponsors the raffle […]
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