Registration is open for Totally Trades!, career sessions offered online this spring by New Ventures Maine. Eleven sessions, offered at no cost, are designed to encourage girls in grades eight through 12 to consider careers in which women are traditionally underrepresented. The 15-minute video sessions focus on high-wage, high-demand nontraditional careers in trade and technical […]
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Short film submissions by K-12 students sought for festival
The 44th annual Maine Student Film + Video Festival is accepting submissions until June 15. All Maine students in grades K-12 are eligible to enter for free. Films will be judged by category: Narrative, Documentary, and Creative (animated, experimental, etc.), and by age group: Grades K-5, 6-8 and 9-12, according to a news release from […]
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Ag department updates eligibility for market hog pandemic program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington has clarified the definition of a spot market sale and hog eligibility under the Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program, which assists producers who sold hogs through a spot market sale from April 16, 2020, through Sept. 1, 2020. Hog producers also will now be required to submit documentation […]
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UMaine Extension to host wildlife damage prevention webinar
ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension plans to offer a webinar about wildlife damage prevention in home gardens from noon to 1:15 p.m. Friday, April 1. Preventing Wildlife Damage to Home Gardens will discuss methods to help reduce losses in home gardens from raccoons, deer, rabbits and woodchucks. Adam Vashon, a USDA Animal and […]
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Athens, Skowhegan students attend trade show with Lasell University
NEWTON, Mass. — Two Lasell University students, Alexis Grant of Athens and Sydney Veilleux of Skowhegan, were among 50 students from the university’s School of Fashion to travel to the Coterie Spring trade show at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Grant attended the show to view apparel lines from vendors around the […]
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Mitchell center talk to cover PFAS in Maine
ORONO — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine is scheduled to host a talk on PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” and the PFAS crisis in Maine at 3 p.m. Monday, April 4, both remotely via Zoom and in person at 107 Norman Smith Hall on the […]
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Bath-based trust to host lecture by Southern Maine Astronomers
BATH — The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust plans to host Russ Pinizzotto and Rob Burgess of Southern Maine Astronomers for a virtual lecture on Maine astronomy at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31. Pinizzotto and Burgess will detail the actions being taken by individuals and organizations, including in mid-coast Maine, to preserve the nighttime skies. Participants […]
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Maine Sustainability & Water Conference returns to Augusta
AUGUSTA — The 2022 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference is scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 31, at the Augusta Civic Center, 76 Community Drive, according to a news release from the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. This year’s event will be the first […]
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UMaine business schools to host well-being webinar
ORONO — The steps that businesses and organizations can take to help communities and people enhance well-being are to be the focus of an Wednesday, April 6 webinar in the Inspired Innovators speaker series, sponsored by the Maine Business School and Graduate School of Business, according to a news release from the University of Maine. […]
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UMaine Extension 4-H to explore Maine’s changing tidepools
University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H plans to offer an online weekly club for youth 13 to 18 years old about Maine’s tidepools and how to be citizen scientists. The club runs from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, through Tuesday, May 17. An optional field day will be held Friday, April 22, with […]