University of Maine President Susan Hunter hugs a graduate on Saturday at the 216th commencement, which was Hunter's last. The first female president joined the university in 2014 and is retiring in June.
A journalism professor at the University of Maine lamented the loss of Gawker in an op-ed Tuesday, asserting that it is needed now more than ever under President Donald Trump. "Gawker might have been foolhardy, reckless and ultimately self-destructive, but it was also, above all, courageous," Socolow wrote.
Senate unanimously confirmed Anne Hall as the new Ambassador to Lithuania. Senator Susan Collins of Maine introduced Hall and spoke in favor of her nomination last month at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.