Botman begins

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Dan MacLeod in News

Nearly one year after becoming USM’s president, Selma Botman is finally sworn in at a formal ceremony attended by roughly 300

A “lite” comedy about man’s best friend

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Alex Merrill in Arts & Culture

A.R. Gurney’s 1995 play, “Sylvia,” playing from April 24-May 3 at the Russell Hall Main Stage in Gorham, though it treads the fine line between “light” and “lite” comedy, is only partially a play about a dog. In the hands of a more experienced director, it has the potential to be a passable, though somewhat protracted and obvious, comedy about love, jealousy and the ramifications of impending old age.

Newly #1 Huskies drop game to UMass Boston

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Joel Neill in Sports

Riding a 17-game winning streak, the USM baseball team nabbed the #1 ranking in the country, according to the latest D3Baseball.com poll, only to lose against conference foe UMass-Boston three days later, 5-0 in Gorham. The Huskies then took two games from Rhode Island College to claim the Little East Conference regular season title, and the chance to host this year’s tournament.

Letter from the Editor: the Botman era begins

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Matt Dodge in Perspectives

This past Saturday, USM held the formal inauguration of its tenth President, Selma Botman.

For me personally, Botman’s inauguration capped a process of installing a new president that has been in the works for over a year.

When I first came to The Free Press last winter, the search for USM’s new administrator-in-chief was just starting in earnest.

Jenkins rides again

Posted on April 27, 2009 by David O'Donnell in News

Muskie school student tries once more to break into public service, this time as part of an effort to change the face of Portland politics.

Summer movie madness

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Kaitlin Creney in Arts & Culture

June

“The Proposal” promises audiences a Sandra Bullock (“Crash,” “Miss Congeniality”) romantic-comedy that we can all be proud of her in. I’m not knocking her talent, just her choice of movies over the last few years. Bullock plays an obtrusive boss that forces her young assistant, Ryan Reynolds (“Van Wilder,” “Waiting”), to marry her.

Taking on Tuckerman’s

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Brian Slagle in Sports

Once the snow begins to melt and the ski resorts begin to close each spring, skiers flock to Tuckerman’s Ravine, a bowl on the east facing side of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire’s White mountains.

Tuckerman’s has long been a spring skiing Mecca for its notoriously challenging terrain and its reputation for annually holding skiable snow into June (recording an average of 55 feet of snow pack on any given year).

Online TV: Hot new item or cause for alarm?

Posted on April 27, 2009 by The Free Press in Perspectives

I currently watch all my TV online as many young people do today. Lets face it there’s no or hardly any commercials and you have complete control over what you watch. I mainly used the most popular site that was surf the channel.

Surf the channel started getting threats and legal notices.