Bolstered by out-of-state money and volunteers, both sides jockeyed Monday to boost turnout for Maine's referendum on same-sex marriage - a contest that could give gay-rights activists in the U.S. their first such victory at the ballot box.
LEWISTON a ' Bates College earned a high grade for environmental sustainability on campus, according to an annual survey of 332 colleges and universities across the country and in Canada.
AUGUSTA, Maine a ' More than 100 Bowdoin College students have come forward with flu-like symptoms since the start of the academic year, but the Brunswick college says more than half of them have recovered and are back in classes.
Maine Center For Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Dora Mills said 100 Bowdoin College students are suspected of having the swine flu, and 50 are in isolation.
Summer newspapers in the Kennebunks have been published by all kinds of people: a wet-behind-the-ears son of a Kennebunk farmer, a big city dandy who arrived with much fanfare, but left town under the cover of darkness, and a woman of fortitude who never allowed her gender to be a handicap, to name but a few.
AUGUSTA : There has been an escalation of cases of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, in Maine since the opening of school, officials said, and Bowdoin College in Brunswick is experiencing an outbreak of swine flu among its students.
It's been four years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Its causes and ramifications, though, extend much farther into both the past and the future.