University of Maine coach Jack Cosgrove is realistic about his team’s chances of pulling off a major upset with Football Bowl Subdivision opponent Pittsburgh on Saturday (1 p.m., Heinz Field, streamed on ESPN3). “They have to play bad and we have to play great,” Cosgrove said. It isn’t unprecedented. Maine beat Mississippi State in 2004 […]
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Grant to be used for offshore wind project
ORONO — A $3 million federal grant to a University of Maine research center will be used for another piece of the puzzle in building windmills to harness the bountiful winds off Maine’s coast to produce energy. Habib Dagher of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center said the center will use the money for a […]
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Autumn’s swift season
A blissful hereafter for me would be an endless October with its rust-colored foliage, crisp mornings and balmy, sun-drenched afternoons. There would be outdoor companions, hunting dogs, good bird guns and alder runs. The flaming sunsets would linger longer, and the rafting loons would not have to find refuge in coastal estuaries and points south. […]
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Redrawing lines too important for parties to prevail
Leaving the redrawing of congressional districts in the hands of partisan legislatures is an old problem that this country has not yet outgrown. The result has been several centuries of unfairness and turmoil as politicians seek advantage over one another and long-term job security for themselves. For years, the system was used to keep blacks […]
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College football: Maine hopes pain of 2010 leads to gain in 2011
ORONO — The 2010 season was a frustrating one for the University of Maine. The Black Bears’ 4-7 record (3-5 in the Colonial Athletic Association) only scratches the surface of how vexing an autumn it was in Orono. “We took some hits, learning hits, growing hits,” Cosgrove said. Cosgrove is optimistic that those growing pains […]
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Hurricane Irene was no real test of ‘new’ FEMA
Let’s just say it is a victory lap not worth running. Federal officials and liberal-leaning newspaper columnists were celebrating Tuesday that the federal government has regained its capacity to respond to national disasters. This, they say, was proven by the response to Hurricane Irene, which drifted up the East Coast over the weekend, at one […]
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College football: History teaches Bears not to look past Bryant
Few people within at least a three-hour drive of Orono, least of all head coach Jack Cosgrove, want to see the University of Maine football team repeat its performance in last year’s season-opener against Albany when the Black Bears open the 2011 schedule against another Northeast Conference school, Bryant (5 p.m., Saturday, Alfond Stadium). The […]
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Maine’s leaf-peeper website upgraded for mobile use in 2011
AUGUSTA — Like those traveling to see the state’s renowned fall foliage — Maine’s fall foliage reporting website is going mobile. A redesigned Department of Conservation fall foliage website will launch on Wednesday, Sept. 14, according to a department press release issued Thursday. Gale Ross, the state’s foliage spokeswoman, said the state, which has been […]
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AERIAL VIDEO: Androscoggin River a big, muddy mess after Irene
LEWISTON — High water volume from Tropical Storm Irene has turned the Androscoggin River a brownish, coffee color. Photographs shot while flying with the Bowdoinham-based Point of View Helicopter Services show how the river looked from above Tuesday.
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Maine panel backs Democratic redistricting plan
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A bipartisan panel charged with drawing up new boundaries for Maine’s two congressional districts has voted in favor of a Democratic plan that makes minimal changes to the present line. Tuesday’s 8-7 vote came after the commission chairman, political independent Michael Friedman, sided with a compromise plan advanced by Democrats. That […]