AUGUSTA, Maine, May 22 -- The Maine Emergency Management Agency issued the following news on May 21, 2024: Maine Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) will host its Maine Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference on Tuesday, May 28 and Wednesday, May 29 at the Augusta Civic Center. This year's theme is "Enhancing Resilience and Community Preparedness." Wednesday's schedule includes a wide range of emergency management workshops related to preparedness and education, technological hazards, miti more PR

STONINGTON, Maine, May 22 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news on May 21, 2024: Governor Janet Mills today signed an Executive Order to establish a new commission that will develop the State of Maine's first plan for long-term infrastructure resilience. The creation of the commission comes in the wake of several devastating storms, including in December 2023 and January 2024 that caused an estimated $90 million in damage to public infrastructure across the state. Earlier th more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, May 22 (TNSres) -- The Maine Secretary of State issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Annual reports are due on Monday, June 3 for all business and nonprofit entities on file with the Secretary of State's office as of December 31, 2023. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is reminding those who must file that they can do so quickly and easily using the Secretary of State's online filing system. To file online, go to https://www10.informe.org/aro/index_on.html. Paymen more PR

ORONO, Maine, May 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Tucked away in a quiet, climate-controlled building on the University of Maine campus is a collection of old film. Donated to Fogler Library's Special Collections by the James W. Sewall Company (Sewall) in 2019, the collection includes over 3,000 large canisters, each with a bright yellow "Kodak" sticker on the front and 250 photos contained within. Taken from airplanes between 1946 and 2015 for land s more PR

ORONO, Maine, May 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: The National Science Foundation awarded $1.2 million to a University of Maine-led team of researchers to create a comprehensive semiconductor curriculum for high school students. Spearheaded by principal investigator Prabuddha Chakraborty and co-principal investigator Rosemary Smith from UMaine's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the team will devise lessons and coursework about develop more PR