FARMINGTON — Double history major Michelle Henaire was in her element Saturday as she participated in a Civil War encampment by re-enactors with the local 15th Alabama Co. G at the University of Maine at Farmington. The UMF sophomore from Saco, who wore a Civil War-era hoop skirt, dress and blouse ensemble, watched raptly while […]
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South Carolina poet reads for UMF Visiting Writers program
FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writers Series kicked off its final program of the semester Thursday evening at the Olsen Student Center with a reading from renowned South Carolina poet Dan Albergotti. Professor Jeffrey Thomson, who also serves as the director of the Visiting Writers Series, said he met Albergotti 11 […]
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UMF president on death hoax: ‘I simply want to provide the assurance of my presence’
FARMINGTON — A hoax email sent Monday evening to University of Maine Farmington students and staff claimed the university’s president, Kathryn Foster, had died at her home Monday afternoon. In fact, Foster was alive and well in Machias, conducting university business at the University of Maine System’s Board of Trustees two-day meeting. The email, sent […]
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Farmington Children’s Festival attracts, delights many families at UMF
FARMINGTON — A few hundred families participated in the 31st annual Children’s Festival on Saturday. Sponsored by the Franklin County Children’s Task Force, the festival offered children and their families a break from winter. It was held in the Olsen Student Center on the University of Maine at Farmington campus. “This is a great, great […]
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UMF recognizes campus personnel
FARMINGTON — In celebration of the accomplishments of its outstanding staff, the University of Maine at Farmington recently held its first annual Distinguished UMF Staff awards. This recognition program was created to highlight the dedicated and excellent service that UMF staff members provide every day assisting UMF students, campus colleagues and members of the public. […]
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East Mercer harpist adds to UMF fair ambience
FARMINGTON — Soft, delicate and soothing Christmas music wafted through the Olsen Student Center on Saturday morning at the University of Maine at Farmington. It mingled with the raised voices of many shoppers talking all at once as they viewed and handled hundreds of skillfully made wares being sold by dozens of vendors at the […]
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UMF student arrested during Halloween Dance
FARMINGTON — A local man was arrested Friday night during a Halloween dance at the University at Maine at Farmington, UMF interim police Chief Brock Caton said Monday. Jordan Graffam, 22, a student at UMF, was arrested on charges of assault, disorderly conduct and criminal trespass, he said. Graffam was released on $250 cash bail […]
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K. Foster: Thank you, greater Farmington
On behalf of an appreciative University of Maine at Farmington, thank you, Greater Farmington, for your extraordinary friendship and favor as UMF celebrated in recent weeks two very special occasions. At both the presidential inauguration on Oct. 4 and Charter Day on Oct. 9, the latter celebrating UMF’s founding 150 years ago as Maine’s first […]
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Two plead guilty to trespassing, mischief on UMF roof
FARMINGTON — Two men pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges related to being on the roof of the Emery Community Arts Center at UMF in September. One of them was seriously injured when he lost his grip trying to climb off the building to escape police and fell 40 feet to the pavement. Devon Pease, 21, […]
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Farmington school director to be appointed
FARMINGTON — The Board of Selectmen agreed Tuesday to allow the RSU 9 board of directors to appoint a new director to represent Farmington. Eric Gilbert, who was elected in March, has moved to Jay, Town Manager Richard Davis told the board. Gilbert’s successor would serve the remainder of his three-year term, he said. The […]