The Concord-Carlisle League of Women Voters acts locally, state-wide and nationally to educate the public on government and public policies, said Communications Director for the local league, Erin Pastuszenski.

Pastuszenski moved to Concord in 2006 from Medfield where she was active in the league there, and has been on the board in Concord for about four and a half years.

She said the League's calendar follows the school year, for the most part, gearing up in the fall and having its annual meeting at the end of May.

Last fall, in cooperation with Concord CAN, an environmental group in town, and the Alliance for Democracy, North Bridge division, the league put on a two-part series about water called "Life in the Balance." The league showed a film and discussion called "Troubled Waters" and "Tapped," both at Alcott School. The league also hosted evening speakers about water, the essential resource.

Bob Lawson, a ConcordCAN member, made a videotape of the event and has shown it over CCTV, Comcast Channel 8.

During the fall election season, the league hosted candidates' forums at Alcott for state and national congressional candidates.

Pastuszenski said an ongoing program throughout the winter is a gook group that is "not your typical book group" in that it reads non-fiction on a particular topic. The current book list includes "Slavery by Another Name," by Douglas Blackman; "Middle Passages" and "Black Walden" about Concord's role in the abolitionist movement.

The book group has also read books by Greg Mortenson such as "Three Cups of Tea" and books on the environment. The book group is open to anyone and meets every other month inthe trustees room of the Concord Library.

She said the Acton LWV is hosting Alan Khazei on Feb. 15, and Concord members are invited. Khazei is founder of City Year and will speak at the Acton town hall on social entrepreneurship and creating change at 7:30 p.m.

On Feb. 16, the LWV of Concord-Carlisle is again hosting "Our Town, Our Schools, Our Money," a popular annual program that includes a panel of local officials talking about the town and school finances as a precursor to Town Meeting. That event starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Town House. Pastuszenski said it will be broadcast live and will include a question and answer period.

The LWV is hosting a candidates' forum for local office-seekers on March 6 in advance of the March 29 town election. It is at 2 p.m. at the Town House.

The league website is filled with action plans and events. See it here.