UPDATED 2:55 PM A Bates College student missing since Wednesday has been found dead in Italy. John Durkin, 21, of Rye Beach, N.H., was last seen by friends at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday at Sloppy Sam’s bar in the Campo de Fiori section of Rome, his uncle, Tom Durkin, told the Bangor Daily News on Friday. […]
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Geologist to discuss Arctic climate at Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — The February Great Falls Forum on Friday, Feb. 21, will feature Mike Retelle, Bates College geology professor, speaking about monitoring glaciers. The lecture will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. It is titled “Monitoring Glaciers in a Changing Arctic Climate: Perspectives Gained from Long […]
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Scientist: U.S. has too many nuclear weapons
Note: Corrections have been made to the original story published on Jan. 30. LEWISTON — Talk about a timely message. As Laura Grego spoke to a group of Bates College students about the many dangers of nuclear arms, news was coming across the wires. “North Korea has followed through on its threat to advance its […]
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Reporter’s notebook: Speaking ‘in the 2nd whitest state, to white men playing jazz’
Organizers of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates College tried to get historian Gary Younge to speak at last year’s MLK Day, but there was a scheduling conflict. Younge, who writes for the British newspaper “The Guardian,” was covering Barack Obama’s inauguration. This year, Younge was at Bates, and said he was grateful for […]
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MLK speaker: History left out some of King’s message
LEWISTON – Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream” almost wasn’t, British author Gary Younge told an MLK Day audience at Bates College on Monday. In the hours before King gave his famous 1963 speech, members of his team urged him not to say that he had a dream, Younge said. His chief […]
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College women’s basketball: Hancock sparks Trinity
LEWISTON — It didn’t take long for the Bates College women’s basketball team to see a different opponent in the second half Friday night. Trinity came out in the second stanza and was a much more energized and intense team after a slow first half. And there was little the Bobcats could do about it. […]
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Wyeth’s paintings brought to life in granddaughter’s lecture
LEWISTON — Andrew Wyeth’s only granddaughter painted a colorful, humorous and fascinating insider’s picture of the famous artist in an illustrated lecture at the Great Falls Forum on Friday. “I am so proud to be this man’s granddaughter,” Victoria Wyeth told an audience of more than 100 people in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public […]