Coca-Cola Uses Video Game to Encourage Recycling in Bangladesh [VIDEO]
May 2, 2014 This idea is marketing genius! Want to encourage people to recycle? Make plastic bottles their ticket to playing a cool new video game!
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May 2, 2014
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor Needs Female Volunteers for Women’s Build
April 30, 2014 Want to show off your girl power? Support other women in our community while helping a deserving family get a new place to live? Then Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor wants to hear from you!
Holocaust Remembrance Day; The Senseless Persecution Still a Problem
April 28, 2014 You were forced to register and wear an identifying badge.
You were ripped away from your homes, herded like cattle into box cars, and sent away to concentration camps.
In those camps you were starved, beaten, humiliated, shot, and gassed to death because you were Jewish.
Maine’s Domestic Abuse Homicide Review Panel Releases Information [Full Report]
April 24, 2014 There were 26 homicides in Maine in 2013, and according to the Department of Public Safety, 12 of them were domestic violence related.
Back in 1997, the state legislature mandated the creation of the Domestic Abuse Homicide Review Panel, and it's been required to review the homicide cases involving domestic violence in order to prepare recommendations for change.
Longtime Bangor High School Principal Norris Nickerson Dies
Longtime Bangor High School Principal Norris Nickerson passed away on Wednesday, according to a statement released by the Bangor School Department.
It’s a Story of the “Little Turbine that Could”
April 17, 2014 Maine is competing nationwide, and in fact has become a finalist, in a project that combines bright minds with the power of our offshore winds.
After pulling through this last winter, the memory of ocean gales are still fresh in the minds of Mainers and they've been recorded by a wind turbine prototype created by the University of Maine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
Here’s An Interesting Fact! Look At The Calendar This Week…What Do You See?
April 17, 2014 Beginning on Thursday, April 10th...and continuing right through this Saturday, April 19th...what do you see?? Go ahead and look...I'll wait.
A Victim of Sexual Assault Shares Her Story in Hope of Empowering Others
April 14, 2014 April is Sexual Assault Awareness month, and for me, it's personal.
While one might recount a personal experience by claiming "I have this friend...," this story is very personal, and it is about a dear friend.
This April, fifteen years after her brutal attack, we've decided together that I should tell her story again in hope that other victims of sexual assault will come forward and report the crime to police.
A Blood Moon; Just Another Celestial Happening, or Message from God? [Poll]
April 14, 2014 It's referred to as a blood moon, and it's essentially a full lunar eclipse that gives the moon a red appearance.
While the backyard astronomer is delighted to catch a glimpse of this celestial occurrence, others believe this eclipse, and others to follow, are a sign from God.
National Grant Leads to Development of COA’s Sustainable Farming Model
April 8, 2014 The Peggy Rockefeller Farm will soon become a working lab of sorts for students attending the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, and for the community as well.
COA just received a 200-thousand dollar grant from the Arthur Vining Davis foundation for the purposes of creating an experiential learning environment. Physics and Engineering lecturer at COA, Anna Demeo says the grant will allow students to actively participate in the design and development of sustainable solutions.
