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

2020 Pine Tree Hospice Golf Tournament set for Aug. 22

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

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.

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.

Remote SAD 41 district budget meeting set for July 21

MILO — The annual SAD 41 district budget meeting will be different in 2020 as residents of Brownville, LaGrange and Milo can gather remotely via Zoom at 5:30 p.

Woman killed in LaGrange crash has been identified

LAGRANGE — A 35-year-old Penobscot County woman killed in an evening crash on July 7 in LaGrange has been identified.

Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry reminds about the risk of accidentally spreading invasive species while moving firewood

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) is reminding the public about the risk of spreading tree-killing invasive species while moving firewood.

1 killed in LaGrange crash

LAGRANGE — One person was killed in a Tuesday evening crash in LaGrange.

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.

Maine bird lovers will go on with annual loon count

The Maine Audubon Society is going ahead with its annual count of common loons this year.

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.

Paul LePage looms large over Maine’s slate of Republican legislative primaries

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.

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.

ATV registrations now required for 2020-21

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

Maine Warden Service increasing boating patrols this holiday weekend for operation drywater

This holiday weekend, the Maine Warden Service will be active patrolling Maine waterways, keeping Maine boaters safe and enforcing Maine’s boating laws in order to raise awareness about operating under the influence, removing boaters who are operating impaired and ensuring that boats are registered and boaters are wearing life jackets.

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.

SAD 41 summer lunch program postponed after positive COVID-19 test

MILO — A school-based summer lunch program that serves SAD 41 children in Milo, LaGrange and Brownville has been halted this week after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.

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