Tag: Megan Cole

Wesleyan, Baptist and Catholic are some of the more common Christian religions that people hear of.  Unfortunately, for children who were Catholic, it wasn’t a good religion to be in.  A team of investigative...

When students get the chance to study abroad, they may go to England, France or even Germany.  For Michaela Therrien, she and her classmate Lauren went with their professor, Shirley Rush, to Tanzania. “For junior year, we have...

Watergate.  A place some have heard of.  It was broken into by five armed robbers in the ‘60s.  The men were arrested and two reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, were assigned to the case.  The men...

  Picking out your home for the next four years can be hard.  For Brandy Smith, a senior PCJ major at UMPI, she didn’t find it hard at all. “So, I was the editor of my high school newspaper. I went to Mt. View High School...

Dr. Jacqui Lowman has had Saint, who has been helping with her mobility needs, for the last nine years.  “Saint has been a good dog.  But unfortunately, it’s time for me to look for another service animal,” Dr. J said.  As much...

Electricity has become a necessity among many people today.  People use it to watch movies, charge up phones and be able to see in the dark.  Evan Zarkadas is a junior history major at the University of Maine at Presque Isle and...

There’s nothing any greater than a mother figure. Nancy Nichols seems to fulfill that role for many people.  Nancy started working as an administrative specialist at the University of Maine at Presque Isle in 2011 and has...

Who hasn’t taken a picture?  Most everyone has some form of social media and has taken a photo and posted it and has received praise for how good it looked that day.  Well, for photojournalists, that isn’t always the case.  They...

Who says video games are just for kids? Jennifer Ball’s favorite pastime is playing World of Warcraft or Diablo.  The second of three children, Jennifer grew up in Portage, Maine.  Though she doesn’t have any children of her...

Some people got some Christmas shopping done early.  The Micmac Harvest Festival took place on Nov. 17.  About 16 vendors from Aroostook County went to Micmac Farms from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. and sold their goods.  Some of the items...

With Thanksgiving around the corner, there is plenty that students are preparing before they leave for a week. From the packing to bring home summer clothes and swop them for winter, to perhaps graduating this December, students...