Archive for January, 2011
The Dime, a prominent Old Town bar and a mainstay in local night life, will close for an undetermined period of time as the result of a long-standing dispute between the building’s owner and its proprietor.
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Paul Ferguson, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, has been named as a candidate for University of Maine President Robert Kennedy’s replacement.
Ferguson has worked at SIUE, located about 25 miles …
College students nationwide show little improvement in their critical and analytical thinking in their first two years of college, according to a recent report based on the College Learning Assessment (CLA).
For students at the University of …
AUGUSTA — Maine has joined 25 other states in a lawsuit to strike down federal health care legislation passed in 2009 and signed by President Barack Obama.
On Jan. 20, a U.S. District Court judge in Florida, …
At the Jan. 25 meeting of the University of Maine Student Government, senators tabled an amendment to the body’s constitution that would have created a new vice president of external affairs, citing concerns the organization was …
Snow: It’s everywhere this time of year.
This winter in particular has hit the state hard with the white stuff, pounding out three heavy winter storms in recent weeks that have closed schools and businesses statewide.
As a …
The University of Maine’s annual Career Fair took place Jan. 26, bringing to campus a slew of employers seeking to fill out their ranks with some college talent.
The event, which ran from 10 a.m. to 3 …
Noisy night owls
University of Maine Police Department officers responded to a report of excessive noise and underage drinking at 1:13 a.m. Jan. 23 in Estabrooke Hall. An underage resident and her guest, a resident of another …
It’s hard to read between the lines when the lines are nowhere to be seen. Commuters at the University of Maine know this fact all too well as they search the campus parking lots during the …
The West Wing stood still as President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. The work of many staffers over many months culminated into this one master oration.
In the State of the …
