AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage says he’ll include about $8 million in additional funding in the budget for the University of Maine System if the board agrees to a tuition freeze. The Portland Press Herald reports that the money would offset the need for a tuition increase and provide funds for specific programs, including early […]
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David Handley, One branch, one berry, one plant at a time
MONMOUTH — David Handley is the state’s strawberry expert, one of the state’s sweet corn experts and likely to be the state’s hops expert — as soon as he bones up on hops. He jokes that he’s still not entirely sure how that crop fell to him. “I’m desperately trying to learn how to be […]
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Hockey roundup: Fighting Spirit demolish Maine Wild
LEWISTON — Three players finished with a goal and assist as the L/A Fighting Spirit defeated the in-state rival Maine Wild 7-0 Saturday night at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. Dylan Vrees, Brett Bittner, Alexander Friend and Casey Labonte all finished with a goal and a helper. The Fighting Spirit jumped out to a 3-0 lead […]
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UMaine names Joe Harasymiak as Black Bears football coach
The University of Maine announced that Joe Harasymiak will be the next football head coach, according to a university statement. Harasymiak was named interim head coach when Jack Cosgrove stepped down in November. “I am extremely excited and honored to be chosen as the next head football coach here at the University of Maine,” said […]
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Jack Cosgrove steps down as UMaine football coach
ORONO — Jack Cosgrove, a staple on the University of Maine sideline for nearly 23 years and the football coach to record the most wins in program history, is stepping down from that position, effective immediately. Maine Athletic Director Karlton Creech announced the move in a release early Tuesday morning, and said a national search […]
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Former UMaine System chancellor Patrick McCarthy dies at 85
BRISTOL — A Maine man who served as chancellor of Higher Education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for several years in the 1970s before becoming chancellor of the University of Maine System has died at age 85. Patrick Edward McCarthy, who led the UMaine system from 1975 to 1986, died Oct. 13 at his home […]
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UMaine System aims to serve 20 percent local food by 2020
BANGOR — Officials with the University of Maine System say the state’s public universities are launching a program to use local growers and producers for a fifth of their dining hall expenditures by 2020. The approximately 35,000-student system says it expects purchases from local producers to exceed $1.5 million by 2020. The system released a […]
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UMaine freezes tuition with $518 million budget
BANGOR — University of Maine System trustees approved a nearly $518 million budget on Monday morning, but had to balance it by dipping into reserves to the tune of $7 million in spite of recent cuts across the system. The budget also holds in-state tuition steady for the fourth consecutive year — the longest tuition […]
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UMaine investigates conduct of 7 football players
ORONO — Seven members of the University of Maine football team are being investigated for alleged violations of the school’s Student Conduct Code. UMaine spokeswoman Margaret Nagle on Wednesday confirmed in an email the unidentified players are being investigated for alleged code violations “related to the acceptance of meals in a UMaine dining commons in […]
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Eliot Cutler to oversee merger of UMaine grad programs with law school
ORONO — The University of Maine System plans to hire former gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler to lead the merger of graduate business programs at its Portland and Orono campuses with the University of Maine School of Law, according to multiple sources. System leadership would not confirm the pending hire on Wednesday. System spokesman Dan Demeritt […]