Archive for March, 2008
The breach of Hannaford Brothers Company credit and debit card database, which occurred between Dec. 7 and March 10, has caused some worry for Hannaford customers.
With college students financially vulnerable, area banks are urging customers to help them keep a close eye on their credit reports.
Dan Deacon makes the type of sounds that come out of video games when your spaceship defeats the boss of the rainbow world level. If that doesn’t make sense to you, you’ll have your chance to figure it out Saturday, May 3 when WMEB brings Deacon’s joyous electronic cacophony to Soma 36 at the Bear Brew Pub.
Our society is marred by questions that smack of heresy to religious scholars across the country. Issues like gay marriage feature prominently on America’s political landscape. Men like the late Jerry Falwell have enabled the church to encroach on state functions and gain influence over senators and presidents.
Watch any movie about college, or geared toward college students, and you are more than likely to find dozens of girls with their tops off, ready to have crazy sex with any of the leading men in the movie.
In “Wedding Crashers,” the men easily bag horny women with prefabricated moves; in “Old School” there is a topless wrestling match and the main character Mitch has no-strings-attached sex with a high school girl.
For every dollar of state funding invested into the University of Maine System (UMS), $8.10 goes back to Maine’s economy, according to a UMS report.
Gov. John Baldacci asked to cut $7.1 million from UMS. Last week, the Maine Legislature’s Appropriations Committee rejected this, and proposed a $4.
The University of Maine civil engineering hydraulics lab received a $100,000 donation. Kleinschmidt Associates, a local energy and water resource consulting firm based in Pittsfield, gave an endowment that will allow the lab in Boardman Hall to use the interest earned each year for upkeep.
The University of Maine women’s ice hockey team wrapped up their season before spring break with a pair of tough home losses to Vermont. It was a disappointing end to a very rough season for the young team that finished with a record of 4-27-3.
Expectations were high coming into this season with the hiring of new Head Coach Dan Lichterman.
During spring break, the University of Maine softball squad played more than a dozen games in Hawaii and Florida, against universities like Texas Tech, Western Michigan and North Carolina State. Unfortunately for the Black Bears, the sunshine failed to help provide a much-needed spark, as the team dropped every game and has yet to win a match.
The University of Maine field hockey team was nationally acclaimed for their academic excellence. The squad was the recipient of the ZAG/NFHCA Division I National Academic Team Award. UMaine was recognized as one of the top five performers in the country for team grade point average.
From the minds of WMEB’s newest sports talk show, “Three and Out.” We will be bringing you three hot topics from the world of sports. It’s your weekly pill for instant sports relief.
First Down: Pockets full of Posey
The Boston Celtics’ yearly Sixth Star is worth winning for the first time in decades.
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