The college held a vigil Sunday night in honor of the students – two from Maine and two from Massachusetts – who died early Saturday in a single car crash on Route 166 in Castine.
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Four Maine Maritime Academy students killed in single-vehicle crash in Castine
Three other students were injured early Saturday when their vehicle crashed and caught fire, police say.
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MMA vessel to make four cross-Atlantic trips on cruise
CASTINE — The State of Maine, a ship used by Maine Maritime Academy to prepare its students for lives at sea, motored Tuesday afternoon out of Penobscot Bay for its first-ever 90-day training cruise. The 500-foot vessel will make four cross-Atlantic trips during the voyage, which is scheduled to last through late July, according to […]
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Former nursing home aide gets 45 days for assault on patient
PENOBSCOT — A Castine woman who had been charged with gross sexual assault as a result of an incident at a local nursing home a year ago has pleaded guilty to lesser charges, according to documents filed in Hancock County Unified Criminal Court in Ellsworth. Sara N. Comtois, 23, who was working as a nursing […]
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‘Mission accomplished’: UMaine wind project leader says model turbine off Castine has done its job
CASTINE — On a Maine Maritime Academy vessel floating just off Dyce Head in Castine, Habib Dagher stood in front of his 65-foot-tall, yellow-and-white brainchild, VolturnUS — the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas. “Today, we can declare VolturnUS mission accomplished,” he shouted to a group of about 40 legislators, federal and university […]
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‘Mission accomplished’: UMaine wind project leader says model turbine off Castine has done its job
CASTINE — On a Maine Maritime Academy vessel floating just off Dyce Head in Castine, Habib Dagher stood in front of his 65-foot-tall, yellow-and-white brainchild, VolturnUS — the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas. “Today, we can declare VolturnUS mission accomplished,” he shouted to a group of about 40 legislators, federal and university […]
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Geraldo Rivera’s sailboat joins Maine Maritime Academy fleet
ELLSWORTH — Geraldo Rivera, the Fox News host and television personality, has donated his 68-foot sailboat to the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. “Not a sailboat, the sailboat,” Rivera said in a phone interview about Voyager, an aluminium ketch. The boat, which Rivera considers almost a member of his family, will be used to train […]
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UMaine extends wind turbine testing in Castine, prepares bid for wind farm subsidy
CASTINE — As the University of Maine prepares its bid for a long-term contract for an offshore wind energy farm, the school announced that it will extend its test deployment of its floating wind turbine will stay in Castine Harbor to a year. Elizabeth Viselli, manager for offshore wind programs and spokeswoman for the university’s […]