News Digest Education/Arts/Entertainment

  • Lake George Land Conservancy receives grant for internships - 04/25/12
    New York By: Post Star Staff The Lake George Land Conservancy was awarded $8,300 as part of a larger conservation program — money it will use to hire two interns this summer. The award w…Read More
  • Paul Smith's College awarded $530,000 grant - 04/25/12
    New York By: Press-Republican Staff Paul Smith's College has won a $530,000 grant from the National Science Foundation that will help students pursue careers in science. Students majoring …Read More
  • Adirondack Mountain Club Expands Workshop Offerings - 04/22/12
    New York By: Editorial Staff The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) is expanding its outdoor workshop schedule for 2012, offering new ways to discover the wonders of the wild Adirondacks. The new of…Read More
  • ESF Offers Adirondack Residential Semester - 04/06/12
    New York By: SUNY ESF Students with an interest in the Adirondacks have a new opportunity to spend a full semester living and studying in the heart of the 6 million-acre forest preserve. A…Read More
  • Northern Forest Canoe Trail seeking youths for summer program - 03/29/12
    Northern Forest Region By: The Weekly Adirondack Northern Forest Explorers, the signature youth program of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT), offers rural youth five-day paddling trips that…Read More
  • State may shift $200M in grants back into school aid - 03/12/12
    New York By: Staff There could be some good news out of Albany today for students and others who recently lobbied state lawmakers on behalf of the north country's poor, rural schools. Legi…Read More
  • ESF Offers Adirondack Residential Semester - 02/23/12
    New York By: SUNY ESF Students with an interest in the Adirondacks have a new opportunity to spend a full semester living and studying in the heart of the 6 million-acre forest preserve. A…Read More
  • Federal Funds To Help North Country Schools Expand Horizons - 12/28/11
    New Hampshire By: Chris Jensen A new federal grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide about $500,000 for North Country schools. It is the largest grant of its kind in mor…Read More
  • Maine job training program graduates 1st class - 12/21/11
    Maine By: The Associated Press Maine Labor Commissioner Robert Winglass will present certificates to the first class of graduates from a new work force training program this week. The Portla…Read More
  • $15M energy innovation center planned for UVM - 12/12/11
    Vermont By: Free Press Staff Vermont has the potential to become a national leader in integrating renewable energy sources onto the power grid, officials said Monday morning in announcing a new …Read More
  • Husson University launches business internship program - 11/28/11
    Maine By: The Associated Press Husson University has launched a new program to foster student internships with corporations and nonprofits. The Bangor university’s College of Business sa…Read More
  • Creating a passion for theater in Kingston - 11/23/11
    New York By: Todd Moe Theatre Kingston has welcomed its new Artistic Producer on board this season....Todd Moe spoke with Christopher about his goals, which include collaboration and community c…Read More
  • Local supporters on the road to defend Canton College - 11/22/11
    New York By: NCPR Staff A busload of Canton college is heading to New York City this morning - to defend their local SUNY campus at the meeting of the state university's Trustees. NCPR artic…Read More
  • Paul Smith's VIC: learning lab, natural playground, creative space - 11/13/11
    New York By: Ashleigh Livingston Nearly every habitat that exists in the 6 million-acre Adirondack Park can be found within 3,000 acres of land in Paul Smiths. There, beavers busily maintain the…Read More
  • Students leave Climate Summit primed to make a difference - 11/12/11
    New York By: Mike Lynch About 150 students and 30 teachers from 22 high schools and six colleges met at the Wild Center Wednesday and Thursday for the third annual Adirondack Youth Climate Summi…Read More
  • Art supports the community in Saranac Lake - 11/09/11
    New York By: Linda J. Peckel So often you hear about how the arts support a community, but what does that actually mean? In Saranac Lake, NY, the burgeoning Adirondack arts community, it means a…Read More
  • Report: Maine community college cost increases lowest in New England - 10/27/11
    Maine By: The Associated Press A regional agency that watches trends in colleges says that during the past five years, Maine community colleges had the lowest increases in in-state and out-of-st…Read More
  • Consolidating educational systems favored by majority at forums - 10/25/11
    New Hampshire By: Barbara Tetreault More than half of the people who attended the recent forums on the future of education in the Androscoggin Valley favor combining SAU 3 and SAU 20 into a sing…Read More
  • Resource consolidation looked at for schools - 10/19/11
    New Hampshire By: Melissa Grima Ways to increase purchasing power for books, fuel, technology and possibly even transportation, health care and other staffing costs are the driving force for a n…Read More
  • Three Vermont schools of higher ed fall short in finances - 10/18/11
    Vermont By: Tim Johnson Three of Vermont’s higher-education institutions have failed an annual financial responsibility test conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and could face steppe…Read More
  • New book on Adirondack CCC Camps - 10/16/11
    New York By: Editorial Staff Marty Podskoch's newest book Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps: Its History, Memories and Legacy of the CCC, is now available. The 352-page large-format b…Read More
  • Maine’s schools are losing their students - 10/14/11
    Maine By: Heather Steeves In the last decade, Maine’s youth population dropped by nearly 10 percent. As a result nearly every school district in the state has fewer students. This decline is p…Read More
  • Maine Outdoor Education Program teaches students outdoor activities - 10/12/11
    Maine By: Brad Viles This past Tuesday the woods around Upper Togue Pond in Baxter State Park were filled with the sounds of outdoor learning. Instructors with the New England Outdoor Cent…Read More
  • Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Scholarship in Land Use and Ethics - 10/07/11
    SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Northern Forest Institute invites submissions for its first annual symposium of interdisciplinary scholarship in land use and ethics, to be held …Read More
  • Sterling College president to step down next year - 10/07/11
    Vermont by Tim Johnson Another of Vermont’s college presidents is stepping down. Will Wootton, who has presided over Sterling College since 2006, informed his colleagues Tuesday that …Read More
  • Want to enroll in a Maine community college? You may have to wait - 10/05/11
    Maine by Alex Barber AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Community College System has grown so much in recent years — 83 percent since 2003 — that it is having to turn away many qualified applic…Read More
  • Culinary students compete in burger cook-off - 10/01/11
    New York PAUL SMITHS - Six teams of Paul Smith's College culinary students competed in a burger cook-off contest Wednesday, and a handful of judges picked the top three burgers. Adirondac…Read More
  • LePage urges ‘bigger and bolder’ university system reforms - 09/26/11
    Maine by Christopher Cousins BANGOR, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage continued his administration’s focus on public education as an economic driver with bold suggestions to the University of Mai…Read More
  • Increased St. J School Enrollment Bucks Trend - 09/23/11
    Vermont Taylor Reed ST. JOHNSBURY -- St. Johnsbury School is bucking the statewide declining enrollment trend. "We continue to have a growing enrollment instead of a shrinking enroll…Read More
  • SUNY Adirondack enrollment down less than feared - 09/22/11
    New York OMAR RICARDO AQUIJE Kevin Durant, the interim vice president for academic and student affairs, said enrollment for the fall semester is down 3.3 percent from the previous fall…Read More
  • Tiny Vermont town votes to close school with 11 kids - 09/21/11
    Vermont Associated Press EAST HAVEN — A tiny school with 11 students in Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom is going to be closing its doors. On Tuesday voters in East Haven overwhe…Read More
  • Coos County loses last two movie theatres; Lancaster’s Rialto and Berlin’s Princess close - 09/10/11
    New Hampshire By: Jeff Woodburn The last two remaining movie theatres in Coos County have closed. Lancaster’s Rialto Theatre and Berlin’s Princess Theatre, both owned by TBA Theatres, have c…Read More
  • Communities and Banking: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston publications - 09/07/11
    The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston recently published 12 reports on issues from 'Low-and moderate- income issues in New England', to 'New-business creation in rural New England'.  Link to pu…Read More
  • In Farmers’ Almanac, folksy meets the future - 09/01/11
    Maine By: David Sharp The Farmers’ Almanac has a hole punched in the corner, made for hanging it on a hook in the outhouse “library” in the olden days. These days, though, there are some h…Read More
  • Excess capacity | Public schools like Millinocket's buoy enrollment by joining the hunt for foreign students' tuition and diversity - 08/22/11
    Maine By: Whit Richardson When Ken Smith took over as superintendent of the Millinocket School Department in July 2010, he inherited a tough challenge: Revenue was falling as enrollment continue…Read More
  • UMFK named best northeastern college for seventh year - 08/12/11
    Maine By: Jen Lynds A winning streak that started at the University of Maine at Fort Kent seven years ago shows no signs of ceasing, as the college once again secured a prestigious accolade from…Read More
  • New Environmental History: The Nature of New York - 07/30/11
    David Stradling, Professor and Graduate Studies Director at the University of Cincinnati, is author of The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State. This recent (Fall 2010) sur…Read More
  • A partnership to promote the future of regional public media - 07/29/11
    New York By: Martha Foley At North Country Public Radio's annual meeting last night in Old Forge, the Adirondack Community Trust announced a partnership with NCPR to help create the next generat…Read More
  • North Country Anthology, 'Beyond the Notches' now available - 07/20/11
    The new collection of original essays revealing the unique character of northern New Hampshire is now available for purchase at retail outlets throughout New Hampshire and on the web. Beyond th…Read More
  • 'We got her done': Katahdin voters approved Great Northern School System - 07/06/11
    Maine By: Nick Sambides Jr. They have two schools to consolidate, but other than that massive job, the new Great Northern School System AOS 66 was operational Thursday, just in time to avoid $10…Read More
  • Rural schools seek relief after state fails to meet education spending goal - 07/01/11
    Maine By: Abigail Curtis When the voters of SAD 29 in Houlton decided earlier this month to cut the total local share of the school budget by nearly 18 percent, they were taking advantage of a r…Read More
  • Food guidelines will hike cafeteria costs in New England schools - 07/01/11
    By: Associated Press New school nutrition guidelines issued by the Department of Agriculture in January could push up the costs of cafeteria lunches in northern New England schools. The guidelines …Read More
  • Sand in My Shoes: Film uses the pinelands to examine what makes forests healthy - 06/15/11
    Pennsylvania By: Martin DeAngelis Irv and Kirk Jarvis, a video-production team from Tuckerton, were working on a documentary on the history of New Jersey's pinelands when they needed to talk to …Read More
  • Chinese newspaper slams Millinocket; student recruiting effort sparks cold war of words - 06/15/11
    Maine By: Nick Sambides Jr. A national Chinese newspaper set off a cold war of words among town leaders and a national U.S. magazine this week by deriding Stearns High School and calling Millino…Read More
  • Movie shot in Lewiston premiering in LA - 06/08/11
    Maine By: Associated Press A low-budget movie shot in Maine two years ago is getting a better run than writer-director Allen Cognata had expected. Bangor Daily News article link…Read More
  • Philosophy at SUNY ESF's Northern Forest Institute - 06/01/11
    New York By: Marianne Patinelli-Dubay This week I happily begin work as a public environmental philosopher at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Northern Forest Institute…Read More
  • Kendall Science Fellowship - 05/27/11
    The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) seeks outstanding candidates for the 2012 Kendall Science Fellowship on expanding U.S. clean energy choices through technology and policy innovation Link to…Read More
  • VT Law School student wins prestigious national award for article on environmental dispute resolution in New England forest - 05/11/11
    Vermont Law School student Ben Leoni ’11 has been selected by the Burton Awards for Legal Achievement as a winner of the 2011 Distinguished Legal Writing Awards. Leoni is the first VLS student to wi…Read More
  • 'American Loggers' to feature unlikely guest star: The Nature Conservancy - 04/29/11
    Maine By: Nick Sambides, Jr. It is, at least according to stereotypes, an unlikely pairing: A traditional logging company working with one of the nation’s largest environmental preservationist…Read More
  • Stumping for future forests: Vermont Coverts urges landowners to plan way, way ahead - 04/06/11
    Vermont By: Joel Banner Baird Vermont Coverts tries to ensure that privately owned forests remain economically viable and attractive to wildlife. John McNerney, who owns about 60 forested acresa…Read More