Archive for March, 2011
BANGOR — Cindy Blodgett, the former University of Maine women’s basketball coach who was fired Monday afternoon, said at a Thursday afternoon press conference that she was released without cause.
Less than one year after signing a two-year …
At a special trial Tuesday, University of Maine Student Government senators found Student Body President Nelson Carson guilty on articles of impeachment, voting 31-2 to remove him from office.
The senate’s decision took effect immediately. UMSG Vice …
AUGUSTA — It is not yet known how Gov. Paul LePage’s plan for early college offerings to high school students would interface with three already established programs in Maine.
Maine’s hypothetical education revamp — which is still …
Flat appropriations to higher education in Gov. Paul LePage’s proposed biennial budget would assist the University of Maine in holding tuition increases at their lowest in nearly a decade and help narrow a funding gap by …
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a renowned advocate for fighting climate change, presented a lecture on the interconnected nature of major world issues at the University of Maine Thursday night.
The lecture, titled “Everything Is Connected: …
Sherlock not needed
A Con-Way Freight 2011 truck making a delivery to Fogler Library March 28 backed into a parked 2001 Dodge SUV in the parking lot between the library and Holmes Hall at 1:29 p.m. The …
The University of Maine has appointed Interim Athletic Director Steve Abbott to the full-time position for the next two years.
“President Kennedy talked to me about the importance of having stability in the athletic department as we …
The Penobscot Theatre Company continues its 2010-2011 season as it presents a dramatized version of Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee and originally published in 1960.
The play, directed by Producing …
The Tuesday night impeachment of former University of Maine Student Body President Nelson Carson was, hopefully, the culmination of months of conflict in Student Government.
Numerous wars of words over the body’s still-unfinished website and opinions of …
Less than one year after extending University of Maine women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett’s contract, the former UMaine basketball star and state legend was fired, effective immediately.
On Tuesday, one day after being named the UMaine athletic …
