{"id":25,"date":"2026-09-17T12:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:12:58","slug":"state-of-maine-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/article-hero-middle\/state-of-maine-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE OF MAINE in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>STATE OF MAINE in the News<\/h1>\n<p>The long-awaited arrival of STATE OF MAINE to its home port of Castine received a great deal of coverage in the press. The Academy was pleased to host two Portland Press Herald reporters who were embedded on the vessel for four nights for the final leg of Summer Sea Term. The resulting feature can be found here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/07\/28\/maine-martime-castine-teaching-vessel\/?uuid=78714f21-0c6c-46ad-a711-4aacfea3efa4&amp;lid=240323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portland Press Herald<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>STATE OF MAINE also received some international coverage. James Borton, a distinguished journalist and senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, wrote an article about the training capabilities of the new ship. The article, published by United Press International, can be read here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/07\/30\/State-of-Main-new-ship-merchant-marine-academy\/7541785342690\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Press International (UPI)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During its port call in St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation filmed a segment aboard STATE OF MAINE<em>, <\/em>which can be viewed here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.7236195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All network television news outlets in Maine covered STATE OF MAINE. WABI, which broadcast live during STATE OF MAINE&#8217;s arrival, also aired the following segment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabi.tv\/2026\/07\/13\/its-historic-new-state-maine-training-ship-docks-castine-first-time\/?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WABI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATE OF MAINE in the News<\/p>\n<p>The long-awaited arrival of STATE OF MAINE to its home port of Castine received a great deal of coverage in the press. The Academy was pleased to host two Portland Press Herald reporters who were embedded on the vessel for four nights for the final leg of Summer Sea Term. The resulting feature can be found here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/07\/28\/maine-martime-castine-teaching-vessel\/?uuid=78714f21-0c6c-46ad-a711-4aacfea3efa4&amp;lid=240323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portland Press Herald<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>STATE OF MAINE also received some international coverage. James Borton, a distinguished journalist and senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, wrote an article about the training capabilities of the new ship. The article, published by United Press International, can be read here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/07\/30\/State-of-Main-new-ship-merchant-marine-academy\/7541785342690\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Press International (UPI)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During its port call in St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation filmed a segment aboard STATE OF MAINE<em>, <\/em>which can be viewed here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.7236195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All network television news outlets in Maine covered STATE OF MAINE. WABI, which broadcast live during STATE OF MAINE&#8217;s arrival, also aired the following segment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabi.tv\/2026\/07\/13\/its-historic-new-state-maine-training-ship-docks-castine-first-time\/?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WABI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/article-hero-middle\/state-of-maine-in-the-news\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-hero-middle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}