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Ex-Mainer makes personal case for Upward Bound funding in DC
WASHINGTON -- By the time Patricia Marshall enrolled at Colby College in the fall of 1990, she had endured a childhood of extreme poverty that probably would have shocked most of her classmates. She had lived most of her years in rural Maine without indo from Kennebec Journal Read more »
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The Universal Notebook: The government is us, governor
“The government is what we call ourselves when we agree to work together,” retired U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told an audience at Colby College in Waterville last month. Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Noteboo from The Forecaster, Southern Maine Read more »
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Colby College Museum of Art to celebrate its reopening July 13
WATERVILLE -- The Colby College Museum of Art will celebrate its reopening and inaugurate the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion on Saturday, July 13. Seven exhibitions will demonstrate the strength and breadth of the museum’s collection and offer new perspec from Sun Journal Read more »
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Bittar, E. Edward
He was 84 years old. In 1947, a 19-year- old Edward Bittar was at his dentist's office in Tel-Aviv, reading a copy of National Geographic, when he came across an article describing Colby College in the United States. Whatever that article contained, it w from Madison.com Read more »
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Colby students mark anniversary of BP oil spill
WATERVILLE -- A group of Colby College students staged a demonstration Thursday marking the third anniversary of the BP oil spill. Student members of Colby Alliance of Renewable Energy group took part in a simulated oil spill that contaminated birds and from Kennebec Journal Read more »
