BRUNSWICK — Fourteen members of the Bowdoin College men’s lacrosse team will be disciplined for dressing up as Native Americans at a November party known as “Cracksgiving” held in an off-campus house known as “Crack House” rented by members of the team. As first reported in The Bowdoin Orient, a student newspaper, and confirmed Wednesday by […]
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College field hockey: Bowdoin back to defend Division III title
BRUNSWICK — The NCAA Division III field hockey Final Four is set to begin on Saturday at Lexington, Va., with the Bowdoin College Polar Bears looking to repeat as NCAA champions. Nicky Pearson, in her 19th year leading the Polar Bears, has led her team to an 18-2 mark this season. Bowdoin will face Salisbury […]
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Bowdoin begins building Maine’s largest solar power project
BOWDOIN (AP) — Bowdoin College is beginning to build what is expected to become the state’s largest solar power project. The school said that the 1.2 megawatt, 4,500-panel solar project will be seven times bigger than Maine’s largest existing installation. Panels will be placed on several buildings, including the Farley Field House and the Greason […]
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Bowdoin College president to resign next year
PORTLAND (AP) — Bowdoin College President Barry Mills will resign in June 2015. The Brunswick, Maine, college announced the resignation on Monday. The 63-year-old Mills is in his 13th year as president of the college. Mills said in a statement that he is not retiring from work and will seek another “professional challenge.” He is […]
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Empty Bowdoin College hockey bus slides into N.Y. restaurant
OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — Bowdoin College officials say no one was aboard the men’s hockey team bus when it slid down a hill during Wednesday’s blizzard and hit a central New York restaurant. Nick Canale told The Post-Standard of Syracuse (http://bit.ly/1fyEMSW ) that the bus driver was having lunch inside his Italian restaurant in Oswego […]
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Brunswick Planning Board to review Bowdoin expansion plans
BRUNSWICK (AP) — Brunswick’s Planning Board is scheduled to review two separate Bowdoin College building projects this week. The board meets Tuesday to discuss a plan by the school to tear down a building on Maine Street and replace it with a new administrative office building, as well as a proposal to turn the former […]
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Civil War hero’s Brunswick home damaged by water
“Water was pouring from the ceiling,” Benet Pols said of the parlor of the Potter Street building, the former residence of the Civil War hero and 19th-century Maine governor. “It was a terrible scene. There was water gushing through the ceiling.” Pols said the painted ceiling has since collapsed. Pols said he responded to a […]
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LePage, Bowdoin College students brainstorm on keeping youths in Maine
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday held a lunch meeting with more than 20 students from a Bowdoin College class on Maine politics and discussed, among other things, how to keep young people in the state. According to data from the Maine State Planning Office, Maine’s share of 20- to 59-year-olds is projected to […]