We have a new email, simple to remember: [email protected]. Please let us hear from you! We always appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Maybe your favorite idea will be our next project! Tele-health: it didn’t mean as much a couple of years ago as it does now, after our COVID shut-downs. Do you have a story […]

Clinics offered Tuesday through Friday LEWISTON — Central Maine Healthcare continues to offer COVID-19 vaccines to the community through its high-volume clinic at the Auburn Mall. The site is offering the recently approved booster dose for certain populations; the additional dose for select immunocompromised individuals; and the primary vaccine series.   “We are committed to providing […]

AFCI Sservice The Age-Friendly Community Initiative is very proud of its N2N (Neighbor to Neighbor) Rides Program, which was our first service to the public and has been going strong for five years. We are watching the COVID science carefully, but are currently still offering rides to vaccinated, masked adults over 65. This service is […]

Every year I am cyclically drawn into the mysteries of migration by some particular bird, and this year it was the Ruby-throated hummingbirds. I habitually document the arrival and leave-taking of my hummingbirds observing and recording relevant contextual weather information. This year the first male arrived the morning of May 7, alerting me to his […]

AFCI SERVICES. It seems we’re back to figuring out the most responsible ways to deal with the current COVID situation. AFCI is watching the science and has decided to hold off on any public activities or events – but we’re always eager for your ideas and support! And we’re currently offering rides through our N2N […]

COVID -19. How excited we all were to have easy access to COVID vaccinations and how hopeful about a return to some kind of “normal.” But … not so fast! Today’s Maine news is that Oxford County is now “in the high range, meaning that masks are recommended in public, indoor spaces for everyone, regardless […]

Our recent column “Is Biomass a Climate Solution?” generated some feedback from members of the biomass industry in Maine. We greatly appreciate feedback, so we would like to respond. To review the column’s content, our main point was that using wood pellets from mature trees in place of oil or gas is not going to […]

Some readers may be wondering what a college course is like. I can’t safely generalize, but in upcoming weeks I’ll talk about what my current course would have been like (UMA face-to-face enrollments remain down). Experienced students know that catalog descriptions of courses are often out-of-date, written by now-retired faculty. They ask the instructor. Here’s […]