Talk on localizing global climate action set

The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk by David Reidmiller, director of the Climate Center at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), about how global climate action can be applied in Maine.

‘Signs of the Seasons’ scientist training to begin March 22

University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Orono and Maine Sea Grant will offer four free Signs of the Seasons training options for volunteer citizen scientists around the state.

Maine’s shellfish fisheries webinar to air March 18

The second program in the series, “What’s changing on the mudflats?: Collecting knowledge and data about changing clam flats,” will air at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 18.

Maine Women’s Hall of Fame to hold virtual induction ceremony

The 2020 and 2021 inductees will be honored.

UMF New Commons spotlights Solange’s ‘A Seat at the Table’

Rolling Stone magazine calls the album "a record about black survival in 2016; a combination of straight talk and refracted R&B,” according to a news release from UMF.

UMF to feature virtual reading by author Daniel Suarez

Suarez will read from his work in a remote live reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18.

United Way to hold virtual sculpture contest, food drive

Food collected will be distributed to pantries throughout Somerset, northern Kennebec, and western Waldo counties.

‘Maine’s Big Trees’ topic of Kennebec Historical Society’s March 17 virtual talk

Kennebec Land Trust’s 2021 lecture series to begin March 18

Maine’s bumble bees focus of virtual lecture March 18

Kennebec Estuary Land Trust’s lecturer will be Kalyn Bickerman-Martens.