To the editor:
On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the entire University of Maine System, we want to thank the voters for approving funding to build a new animal and plant disease and insect control lab for Maine. The new facility will enable us to provide better public health services to Maine families as well as carry out research critical for Maine’s agricultural and other natural resourced-based industries.
For a century the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension has been putting university research to work in homes, businesses, farms and communities across Maine. We are proud of this legacy of service and are grateful to everyone who cast a vote in support of our work on behalf of the people of our Maine.
Susan Hunter, president of the University of Maine
James H. Page, chancellor University of Maine System
