Jose Sartarelli, the chief global officer and dean of the business school at West Virginia University, withdraws his name after visiting the campus and deciding it wasn’t ‘a good fit.’
Noel K. Gallagher
Noel Gallagher covers K-12 and higher education issues statewide. Her stories are a mix of breaking news and trend stories. In recent years, they’ve ranged from why college costs so much, the launch of the state’s first charter schools, how a school welcomed a transgender student and why Maine schools have a hard time finding teachers. She’s enough of a news nerd to enjoy sitting through legislative education committee meetings and hours-long school board meetings so you don’t have to.
The Maine Press Association has honored Noel’s work, but she says she writes for the readers, in the firm belief that an informed citizenry is key to a healthy democracy.
Noel is a California native who has worked at wire services, online websites and newspapers across the country. She was in Washington D.C. during the early Clinton years, covering AIDS activism in 1990s San Francisco, documenting the business of wine in Sonoma County and riding out the boom and bust cycle of the early Internet era in early 2000s Silicon Valley. She arrived in Maine at the beginning of the recession and wrote quite a bit about the downturn here.
In her free time, Noel writes the occasional cookbook review, spends an inordinate amount of time at the Portland Public Library and hangs out with her three fabulous kids and wonderful husband. She is not a former member of the band Oasis.
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UMaine professor whose laptop was stolen violated university’s data policy
Students’ Social Security numbers shouldn’t have been on the laptop, says an official who’s looking into why the sensitive information was stored there.
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For Maine’s Sen. Angus King, moderate stance, unpredictability paying off
‘I may be in a more effective position as a legislator in the minority,’ says the independent in an interview with the editorial board of the Press Herald/Telegram.
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Bath man surrenders after standoff with police in Waterfront Park
The man, described as possibly suicidal, fired a gun into the ground before obeying officers’ commands, police say.
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Stranded Downeaster passengers say delay made for ‘an absolutely terrible day’
Riders remain angry Friday, a day after their train to Boston broke down in North Berwick and took nine hours to reach its destination.
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Candidate for USM presidency touts administrative experience
Harvey Kesselman, provost and executive vice president at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, visits the University of Southern Maine in his bid for its presidency.
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Commission calls for Maine to boost college aid
The overall cost of all the recommendations in the report would exceed $30 million annually in new funding.
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Glenn Cummings emphasizes Maine roots as he vies to lead USM
The interim president of UMaine Augusta and a professor at the University of Southern Maine, he is one of three candidates for the job.
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Report says state needs to do more to help hungry children in Maine
A legislative task force finds that many students who qualify for free or reduced price meals at schools aren’t getting them.
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Micaela Manganello: ‘I always knew it would be a huge financial burden’
Micaela Manganello knows she’s going into debt to get her nursing degree, and that’s a little scary. But the Connecticut native is resigned to the idea that it’s just what it takes these days. “I always knew it would be a huge financial burden,” said Manganello, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Southern Maine. […]