For years coaches and players alike have longed for an artificial turf field. The fields are safe, playable in inclement weather and very expensive.
For just as many years the money hasn’t been available to install such a field.
Until that money comes in, Bill Lamont, the facilities supervisor and Tim Cronin, the groundscrew leader, are working hard to provide athletes with the best, and safest, facilities possible.
I slunk into the Theater at Russell Hall at 7:31, just in time to take stock of the opening tableau: country music, a large man in a Stetson and overalls. When the first character opened his mouth, affecting a Southwestern accent, it became apparent: I was watching a play about poor white people.
Senior Brent Profenno (Standish) dropped a 140-yard approach shot to within a foot of the hole and classmate Matt Reid (Cape Elizabeth) made the birdie putt to cap off the pair’s even-par-70 and power the USM Golf team to a victory in the Southern Maine Cup at Sable Oaks Golf Club.
Tim Hoffman is a Portland comedian. He joins 4 other comics for a comedy show on October 23rd at USM. The Free Press chatted with Tim to learn about his connection to comedy and how it works as a Portlander.
Free Press:
Tim, what’s your story?
Tim Hoffman:
Well, most of my jokes are influenced by parties, life, I joke a lot about food, monsters and ghosts.
Ever since she started picking up trash along the Maine shoreline, Sandra Wacholz has been seeing that tell-tale shine – washed up on the sand, in the grass or between rocks.
Another hypodermic needle.
Walchoz, a?professor of criminology at USM, is not just an environmentalist, though friends and colleagues say they can’t imagine a more motivated one.
Bayside Village, the independently-owned student housing complex on Marginal Way, has been up and running for little over six weeks. That’s why it’s troubling to some that the Portland police department is already so well-acquainted.
Right from the beginning, law enforcement found themselves heading over on a regular basis.
Some night’s, Portland is so dead and quiet that you can pedal your bike down the center line as you navigate the city streets. I’ve found that Portland, and the surrounding areas, are the perfect playground for a lover of the night. sit back and let me explain to you the thrill of nocturnal exploration.
The USM Art Gallery in Gorham is displaying a collection of molas, reverse appliquéd fabric panels worn on the blouses of Kuna women.
The Kuna are an indigenous people from Panama and Columbia. A mola, which means “shirt” or “clothing”, is an intricately produced textile made up of many layers and colors and is a prominent form of artistic expression for Kuna people, as well as an economic asset.
Now hiring for the position of Vice President of the United States. Minimum requirements include the following: carefree attitude, folksy catchphrases, an unfounded sense of “Maverickness”, ability to memorize talking points, and a general incompetence of every major issue.
Appointments have been made to the provost search committee, a 13-member panel that will help select the University’s next vice president of academic affairs.?
The group, which will be vetting and interviewing candidates in a nationwide hiring campaign, includes representatives from across faculty and staff, as well as one member of the student body.
Free Press: So who are you?
Matt Reid: I am a 22-year-old English major and I play golf. I’ve been playing golf for about ten years and it’s a big part of my life. But it’s not just the golf. I’ve made a lot of great relationships being on the team. I am from Cape Elizabeth and I am very family oriented.
Last week, Ryland Cook spent ten days in St. Louis as an intern for USM art professor Micheal Shaugnessy. Shaugnessy was the artist chosen as the inaugural solo show at a gallery and artist workspace called The Craft Alliance. Cook, a recent USM grad kept a day-by-day journal for the Free Press to chart the daily progress of building and installing the sculpture show.
In the past few years I’ve become more passionate about politics than I ever thought possible. I started to question the government around the time of 9/11, and later on scrutinized it even more when I fell in love with a soldier. I have always been unquestionably liberal, and have never felt particularly judgmental of other peoples’ opinions until fairly recently.
In preparation for the student senate’s first fall elections, student government officials printed 2,000 cards. They stuck them under the doors of dorm rooms, leaned them up against school computers, and otherwise scattered them around USM’s campuses.
Even more promisingly, they scored some real estate on the front page of the University’s website and pushed heavily the web address for online voting, from which students could log in and vote online, any time of the day or night.
The first time I ever made dough it was a goopy sticky mess that ended up baking up like a brick. The anticipated soul satisfying experience eluded me that time, yet I was drawn to the process, due in part to the unique flour bin, under the counter like a secret compartment, in the pantry of our apartment.
In this day and age, it is becoming more and more difficult to find artists and bands that have an inherent sense of honesty in their music.
For a while now, Pete Kilpatrick has been at it solo, and along with a revolving-door team of Portland’s finest, he has been delivering the honesty I speak of.
Bonny Brown-Denico’s office is littered with mementos of past triumphs. Field hockey trophies sit next to game softballs from years past, photo collages of old teams adorn the walls, but sprinkled ever so carefully around the room are Brown-Denico’s most prized possession: pictures of her children.
The professor scowled at his student, “You’re going to have to make the decision-how important is this class to you? You’ll be missing class for a family gathering? How big is your family? ”
This is what I overheard my professor asking a student who said he might not be at the next class.
I crossed the threshold into Bates College’s “Grey Cage”, and was greeted by a glistening spectacle of flesh, ironic neon clothing, and alcohol-impaired dance moves. The one-man dance party that is Girl Talk, a.k.a. Pittsburg’s prolific mash-up “artist” Greg Gillis, was set to take the stage around ten p.
As the campaign heats up, USM students watch and weigh in over food and drinks in the Old Port
Thomas Friedman said the world was flat.
My aunt said it’s a small world and my uncle replied he wouldn’t want to paint it.
I guess, in a way, they’re all right. The world is getting smaller and flatter. People are making connections over distances never before imagined.
It’s an unusually busy Monday night upstairs at the Old Port’s RiRa. The room buzzes with eager conversation and happy-hour gaiety, as a crowd of well-dressed young professionals mingles near the bar, undaunted by the full workweek ahead.
At first, it can be hard to tell what type of event you’ve stumbled across.
It’s pasted all over buses shuttling students between campuses, it’s slowly creeping its way online, and it’s coming to a movie theater near you.
It’s the new USM marketing campaign, and it might start to seem like it’s popping up everywhere – but that’s the idea.
Junior goalkeeper Allison Hill (Cape Elizabeth) deflected a penalty stroke with 47 seconds remaining to secure a 3-2 field hockey win over Eastern Connecticut Saturday.
A final push in the last minute and a USM penalty in front of the net allowed the Warriors one final chance to send the game into overtime.