‘Essentials of College Planning’

The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will host free “Essentials of College Planning” workshops for adults age 19 and older.

Lewiston: 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 17, at Fed-Cap Lewiston, 1035 Lisbon St.

Livermore Falls: 10 and 11:30 a.m. on Monday, July 16, at Spruce Mountain Adult Education, 9 Cedar St.

Wilton: 10 and 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 18, at Wilton CareerCenter, 865 U.S. Route 2 East.

To register or for more information, call 1-800-281-3703, or visit meoc.maine.edu.

Literacy volunteers seeks tutors

FARMINGTON — Literacy Volunteers of Franklin and Somerset Counties is seeking volunteers to tutor adults with literacy goals.  

A new tutor training will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 26, at the RSU No. 9 Adult Education offices, 129 Seamon Rd., Farmington.

No tutoring experience is necessary; training and support will be provided.

To register, call 207-500-3131 or email literacyvolunteersfs@gmail.com

Land trust seeks bird counters

BETHEL — Whippoorwills, meadowlarks and bobolinks have gone missing — or have they?

Doug Hitchcox, field naturalist for Maine Audubon, is seeking community members to participate in the Maine Bird Breeding Atlas and help find the answer to “where have these birds gone?”

Hitchcox will present at 7 p.m. Friday, June 29, at the Mahoosuc Land Trust’s Valentine Farm Conservation Center, 162 North Road.

Hitchcox will lead a bird walk the following day at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 30, at Valentine Farm. 

The Mahoosuc Land Trust is a conservation land trust serving the communities surrounding the Mahoosuc Mountains, and has the mission of protecting and conserving land and traditional land uses. Learn more at www.mahoosuc.org.