Most of Maine barely has any snow to enjoy the outdoors — and adding insult to injury is the limited amount of safe ice on many of the state’s lakes and ponds forcing the cancellation of local ice fishing derbies.

The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk, “Interdisciplinary Thinking Outside of the Academy: Lessons from Program Evaluation,” at 3 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 6.

The specter of someone calling 911 and no one being available to respond to their emergency, is unfortunately a very real possibility in the near future, especially in many rural areas of Maine.

The Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce returned to the Cross Insurance Center on Friday night, after a three-year absence due to the pandemic, to honor businesses and individual people for their service to the community, entrepreneurship, leadership and lifetime achievement.

The University of Maine System has paid more than $200,000 to a man who has never worked for the state’s public university system.

A Maine nonprofit that assists low- and moderate-income families will have nine 3D-printed houses made out of recyclable materials to help address the state’s affordable housing shortage.