2 days ago

East Sangerville Grange farmers open online farmers’ market  

SANGERVILLE — The tradition of farming and the opportunities of the internet are being celebrated by the farmers of the East Sangerville Grange, as they announce the opening of their online farmers’ market — the Maine Highlands Farmers’ Market.

3 days ago

Maine’s mask mandate doesn’t go far enough, health professionals say

Gov.

3 days ago

2020 Pine Tree Hospice Golf Tournament set for Aug. 22

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Golfers, you have waited long enough.

3 days ago

National Digital Equity Center expands to offer free statewide digital literacy classes online 

MACHIAS — The National Digital Equity Center is pleased to announce that it is now offering digital literacy and computer skills classes online statewide.

4 days ago

Adult ed programs to provide laptops to remote learners with help from Maine Community Foundation grant 

AUGUSTA — Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) is partnering with the Maine Department of Education (DOE) to ensure that adult learners have the technology they need to continue their studies.

5 days ago

Turning Page Farm – Turning passion into livelihood

MONSON — What do you have when you combine your passion and your dreams and create a new reality for yourself? For Joy and Tim Bueschen, it was the creation of their new home in the woods of the Central Maine Highlands, Turning Page Farm Brewery.

5 days ago

County commissioners approve bids for work on Elliotsville Road

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Commissioners awarded bids for paving and road work projects on the Elliotsville Road during a July 7 meeting.

6 days ago

Find The Whoopie Pie Contest winner

Observer photo/Keri FosterFIND THE WHOOPIE PIE WINNER — Allison Smith of Dover-Foxcroft is grand prize winner in the Piscataquis Observer’s annual Find the Whoopie Pie Contest.

6 days ago

Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union donates $145K for sheriff’s building

GUILFORD — Thanks to the generosity of the Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union, the patrol and investigation divisions of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office will have a new home in downtown Guilford at the former Key Bank building.

6 days ago

Maine DOT acquires ‘Dead River’ building in Dover-Foxcroft  

DOVER-FOXCROFT — After years of effort and study, the Maine Department of Transportation has completed the purchase of the “Dead River” building at the intersection of South and East Main streets (Routes 7 and 15) in Dover-Foxcroft.

7 days ago

This Maine governor never publicly embraced the Klan, but he never disavowed its support

As debates rage on in Maine and around the country about the removal of monuments and renaming of buildings and locales named for slave owners, racists and other historical figures with problematic stories, other influential Mainers had similarly checkered pasts — even if there are no statues or buildings named for them.

1 week ago

Reopening movie theaters to face multiple challenges

Movie theaters around Maine may be back in business under Gov.

2 weeks ago

Greenville firm to develop high temperature materials for NASA spacecraft 

GREENVILLE — On June 30 NASA selected Pepin Associates for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program to develop formable, high temperature materials in support of several NASA programs.

2 weeks ago

Department of Education to release statewide survey to inform framework for returning to classroom instruction

The Maine Department of Education continues to work with educators and health experts from across the state to develop health markers and corresponding plans to ensure the safe return to classroom instruction.

2 weeks ago

Northern Light Health board elects new chair, vice chair

BREWER — Kathy Corey has been elected as the next chair of the Northern Light Health Board of Directors.

2 weeks ago

ATV registrations now required for 2020-21  

ATV owners must now register or renew registrations for 2020-21.

2 weeks ago

Most waste meant for shuttered Hampden plant will temporarily go to Orrington incinerator

The 115 towns that have been sending their trash to landfills over the past month since the closure of a new waste processing plant in Hampden will instead temporarily send three-quarters of their trash to the incinerator that accepted the towns’ waste until 2018.

2 weeks ago

Benefactor to cover $145K purchase cost for sheriff’s building 

MILO — When county residents head to the polls on Tuesday, July 14 they will be voting on a pair of state bond questions, political party primaries when applicable and a question concerning a bond to purchase the former Key Bank building in downtown Guilford to be the new home of the sheriff’s office patrol and investigation divisions.