Mainebiz contributor Laurie Schreiber spoke to Paul Sacaridiz, who stepped in as Haystack Mountain School of Crafts' fourth director last September, following the retirement of Stuart Kestenbaum, who served as director for 27 years.
The makerspace reflects a convergence of several important education trends that are based on the realization that teaching the STEM disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math benefits greatly when academic learning is combined with hands-on challenges requiring real world solutions.
A proposed change to the nation's overtime eligibility regulations could quadruple the number of workers in Maine who would be covered by the new salary threshold — rising from 16,000 to 64,000 workers.
That's just what local craft brewers and some government officials want: a truly Maine beer, with Maine-grown and processed ingredients. The side benefits are higher prices for farmers producing malt-grade barley and varieties of hops as well as a stable, local market for those products.
“Retire” is the word that shall not be used in describing what Coastal Enterprises Inc. founder Ron Phillips plans to do after he turns over the leadership reins this week to his successor as CEO, Betsy Biemann, and as president, Keith Bisson.
UMaine food science and human nutrition professors Jason Bolton and Brian Perkins developed a course, FSN 121 Brewing with Food Science, and taught it over the past three years. Their idea caught on fast. The undergraduate course is so popular that enrollment is capped at 80 students per semester.
