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If you tuned into last night's episode of SEAL Team, you may have heard a song by a Maine band.

New stations for the Green Line Extension north of Boston won’t just provide platforms for trains – they’ll also be platforms for several new pieces in the MBTA’s public art collection. Contractors are beginning to assemble the new stations on the Green Line Extension (GLX) in preparation for its opening later this year, and during the project’s February Community Working Group meeting, the officials shared images of how the new artworks will fit into the new stations. In a statement,...

Roundtable: Authors reflect on writing the first draft of COVID-19’s history Written with urgency in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, three recent works of nonfiction serve as vital records of this historic time. In Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey through a World Suspended (Signal/McClelland & Stewart), Ethan Lou shares his prescient and personal thoughts while travelling through Asia, before quarantining in Germany. In Chronicling the Days: Dispatches from a Pandemic (Guerni...

One of the most closely watched journalists has the luxury of space, depth, and time in her books and her frequent New Yorker articles. By SueEllen Campbell | Friday, March 5, 2021 Journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert working with scientists in 2019 to count pupfish numbers at Devils Hole, part of Death Valley National Park. New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert has long been one of the most prolific and closely-watched journalists regularly reporting on climate change. Her pieces are we...

Kayleigh Chalkowski, fourth-year doctoral student, travels to a variety of places studying wildlife and creates art of the organisms she finds along the way. &nbsp&#x3B;&nbsp&#x3B;

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Carlow Mayo Public Library has a great new initiative on its Facebook page. Lori Cooper Padgett, who is a library technician at the library, has been posting synopses of some of the library’s new book offerings, so their patrons can get a better idea of what the library has in stock while it is still only doing curbside pickup due to COVID-19. This allows patrons to discover the library’s new books and perhaps even find a new favourite author. Carrie...

February 22, 2021 When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of 35, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. What she never could have predicted was that she would become one of them. Not only would she come to identify proudly as a birder, but birding would ultimately lead her to find love, uncover a new language and lay down her roots.  Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder tells the story of finding meaning in midlife through birds. Read an excerpt belo...

Updated: 10:14 AM CST Feb 19, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript To be honest, the community is scared, especially my generation. You know, I wouldnt really say scared, too. But I say like, skeptical. I dont plan on have anything to do with any vaccinations. I dont wanna deal with it. Kovar 19 Pandemic is hitting the black community hard In California, blacks make up just 6% of the population but account for 4% of coronavirus infections and 7% of covert related death. Some bla...

Mother-daughter nurses now both vaccinated after mom with one lung gets placebo in trial Barbara Harper and her daughter, Laura, are both nurses. They were also both participants in Modernas vaccine trial. Along with wanting to help others, the pair had personal reasons for wanting to take part. Share Updated: 10:17 AM CST Feb 19, 2021 Troy Frisby Mother-daughter nurses now both vaccinated after mom with one lung gets placebo in trial Barbara Harper and her daughter, Laura...

COVID-19 vaccine trial participants reveal why taking part was so important to them Before COVID-19 vaccines were approved for distribution around the country, Americans braved possible side effects by volunteering for vaccine trials to help others. Share Updated: 10:58 AM CST Feb 19, 2021 Troy Frisby COVID-19 vaccine trial participants reveal why taking part was so important to them Before COVID-19 vaccines were approved for distribution around the country, Americans brav...