University of Maine at Farmington News

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FARMINGTON a ' The Franklin County Democrats will meet at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at the University of Maine at Farmington Student Center to talk with gubernatorial candidate Steve Rowe, Maine's attorney general from 2001 to 2009.

FARMINGTON a ' A public comment session was held Saturday at the University of Maine at Farmington to hear citizens' opinions on the Environmental Impact Statement released by the Air National Guard concerning their proposal to lower flight training altitude over western Maine.

Students in a recreational therapy class at the University of Maine at Farmington experienced playing tennis from a wheelchair early Friday morning despite frosty temperatures.

FARMINGTON a ' A four-event program on human trafficking and slavery began at the University of Maine Farmington Monday night with a concert presented by the group, "The Wrecking." Some members of the group are UMF alumni and presented a program on Love 146, said Katherine Thompson, a UMF Intervarsity Christian Fellowship member.

Cheers and jeers from around the news: a Jeers to the Air National Guard, for doing a shoddy job with their official "Environmental Impact Statement" of low-level military flights across Western Maine.

A controversial plan to expand low-level National Guard training flights over western Maine will be the subject of a public hearing Saturday.

Gov. John Baldacci today registered his opposition to a proposal by the Air National Guard to allow low-level training flights over Western Maine, a press release issued from his office Friday stated.

Measured Progress has named Timothy Crockett as senior vice president. Crockett first joined the Dover, New Hampshire-based educational assessment company in 1993.

Sculptor Christopher Fennell shows his completed sculpture "Lawnmower Leaves,"A made of 1,000 lawnmower blades, to University of Maine at Farmington President Theodora Kalikow on Wednesday.

The New Hampshire Bankers Association named Piscataqua Savings Bank President Jay S. Gibson as the new chairman of its board.

Wayne David DuPlessis, 57, of Bethel, died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. He was born Jan.

LEWISTON a ' Despite recent polling that indicated strong support for keeping Maine's law allowing same-sex marriage, voters rejected it by a margin of about 53 percent to 47 percent, according to unofficial tallies.

St. Mary's Regional Medical Center has seen a jump in the number of patients with flu-like symptoms that could be H1N1.

Two women have opened a fitness center in downtown Farmington, and they're inviting the community to visit them on Saturday morning.

A man from Biddeford charged with possessing child pornography will enter a plea in Franklin County Superior Court Wednesday.

FARMINGTON a ' A debate on Maine's same-sex marriage law will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.

Food for Maine's Future announced that Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, is International Day of Opposition to Monsanto.

FARMINGTON a ' The University of Maine at Farmington Department of Geology has been awarded a $20,000 Quimby Family Foundation grant to study the effects of climate change on high elevation ponds in Maine.

A newspaper story about an event that took place July 17, 1939, grabbed me right by the hand and marched me back 70 years! You may have read the story, "Lost on a Mountain in Maine,"A or heard about how Don Fendler, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, got lost long ago on Mount Katahdin.