The University of Maine is currently holding its 2015 Senior Art Exhibition at the Lord Hall Gallery. The show runs until Jan. 22, displaying paintings, sculpture, photography, digital and other artwork created by 14 UMaine senior studio art majors. Student preparations for the show included supplemental presentations, artists’ statements, essays and hands-on involvement in installing […]

ORONO – The Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine will hold its annual Ye Olde Holiday Shoppe from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5. The free event will feature more than 20 local area vendors with handcrafted and homemade products including jewelry, bread, cheese, wreaths, toys and quilts. The […]

Students in University of Maine economics professor Sharon Klein’s service learning class have spent the semester working with the community to help keep homes warm throughout the winter. The pilot course, “Building Sustainable Energy Communities Through Service Learning,” teaches students about sustainable energy through hands-on community engagement. Throughout the semester, the 10 students in the […]

The Relay For Life of Penobscot will be held at the Old Town High School track in June of 2016. American Cancer Society Staff partner Mike Trafton made the announcement this week, marking a return to the track the annual event called home for more than a dozen years. The 2016 Relay for Life of […]

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the upgrade and replacement of 630 feet of boardwalk sections along the Johnson Brook Trail at the Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Milford. The boardwalk sections were constructed by Great Northern Dock of Naples and installed by Borsetti Construction of Sebago. The five foot wide […]

OLD TOWN This fall’s upgrade of DeWitt Field wrapped up this week. The $4.5 million project at the city airport, which is funded nearly in its entirety via grant funds, in large part dealt with the airport’s runways, which have been deteriorating for quite some time now. One of them dates back to World War […]

ORONO – Explore how Maine’s flora and fauna cope with winter during the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H Science Saturday on Dec. 5. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. starting at Nutting Hall on campus, participants will explore the ecological side of winter. Students in the UMaine School of Forest Resources will lead hands-on […]

In an effort to give back to the community, several University of Maine groups are leading charitable efforts for local individuals and organizations throughout the holiday season. The UMaine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism is collecting gifts for the Holiday Sharing Program, which serves more than 1,000 children in the local community. The program […]

The Eastern Maine CA$H Coalition (Creating, Assets, Savings and Hope), in partnership with AARP Tax-Aide, the Internal Revenue Service Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA), and the United Way of Eastern Maine, is currently recruiting volunteer tax preparers. Each year, thousands of low to moderate-income individuals have their tax returns prepared for free by the […]

Maine Attorney General Janet Mills recently announced that the state has amended its pending federal lawsuit against EPA, transforming it from one forcing EPA to act on Maine’s standards to one challenging EPA’s unlawful actions in response to Maine’s lawsuit. In a statement, Mills said that the EPA has asserted that Maine’s water quality protections, […]