For recruits from other countries, American ways are sometimes difficult to digest.
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UMaine launches website to help with specialty food products
Recipe to Market aims to help people hoping to get a start in the specialty food business.
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Geologist Brenda Hall fell for glaciers as a child
Now she’s an expert on everything from the speed at which they are cracking to camping on them.
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Proposal has UMaine Machias as regional campus of Orono as early as July
Instead of a president, UMM would be led by an ‘executive dean’ who would report to the UMaine president.
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Proposal would make struggling Machias campus part of UMaine Orono
Trustees are considering options including making UMaine Machias a ‘branch campus’ of the flagship 100 miles away.
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UMF students secure $5,000 grant for Farmington homeless shelter
Their exercise in grant-writing will help buoy a day program for shelter residents.
Posted inMaine Gardener, Source
When it comes to trees and shrubs, go native
We bid goodbye to a longtime Cooperative Extension horticultural specialist, Lois Berg Stack.
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Changing habits can be tricky when living in a zero-waste environment
A group of University of Maine at Augusta professors have been experimenting with zero-waste living since September.
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In fashion, fickle trends and low prices translate to enormous waste
First we waste time shopping, then organizing overstuffed closets. Soon, we tire of the look and toss clothes away, generating guess what? More waste.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Local & State, News, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Bright, young entrepreneur sees opportunity in Maine’s trees
Nadir Yildirim seeks to produce ‘smart products, futurist materials’ from trees.