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National Volunteer Week: Red Cross thanks volunteers for stepping up during COVID-19

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NAMI Maine to offer online courses for family members

HALLOWELL – NAMI Maine, a statewide nonprofit organization providing education, support, and advocacy for people living with mental illness and their families announces that registration is now open for two separate online courses for people who have an adult family member living with a mental health condition.

Committee to start raising funds for PCHS track surface

GUILFORD — With a pair of area businesses’ donations for upgrading the Piscataquis Community High School soccer field and track, a committee will start raising the $103,000 needed for a rubber surface on the new running oval.

Stock your private pond through PCSWCD’s annual trout sale

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Private ponds that are stocked with trout provide multiple benefits for landowners and their families.

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife schedules virtual presentations

Join Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife fisheries and wildlife biologists for the following live presentations on the MDIFW YouTube page.

Community group criticizes county commissioners

The nonpartisan community group, PROACT!, announced that they presented the Piscataquis County Commissioners with a petition signed online by over 300 people asking the commissioners to rescind their January ‘Resolution of Protest.

Bangor Savings Bank donates nearly $1.2M in past year to COVID-19 relief efforts

BANGOR — With 2020 certain to be remembered for COVID-19 and social unrest, Bangor Savings Bank focused its charitable giving in precisely those areas and finished its fiscal year with nearly $1.

Bill would make it easier for Maine landowners to remove nuisance beavers

By Charles Eichacker, Maine Public The beaver has been one of the nation’s great ecological comeback stories.

NAMI Maine seeks volunteers to teach NAMI Family-to-Family courses

HALLOWELL – NAMI Maine, a statewide nonprofit organization providing education, support and advocacy for people living with mental illness and their families, is seeking volunteers interested in being trained as certified NAMI Family-to-Family teachers.

Four things you need to know before you stock your pond with fish

By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff For some people, a pond is not fully a pond unless it has fish in it.

Maine Highlands FCU raises $17K to end hunger

Even though it was a difficult year for fundraising in 2020, Maine Highlands Federal Credit was able to raise over $17,000 for the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger.

Maine counties chafe at lower-than-expected payments from wind farms

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff For nearly two decades, commercial wind farms have been touted in Maine as a way to generate electricity without pollution, and as a way rural locales in Maine can generate revenue for themselves by hosting turbines worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Partners for Peace to host annual meeting online April 15

BANGOR/DOVER-FOXCROFT — Partners for Peace will host their 2021 annual meeting from 3:30 to 4:30 p.

Associated Builders and Contractors honors Cianbro with National Excellence in Construction Award for Puritan project

PITTSFIELD — In April of 2020 Puritan Medical Products, one of two major manufacturers of COVID-19 testing swabs, reached out to Cianbro in desperate need of expanding from their Guilford facility to meet the ever-growing demand for testing swabs.

PCEDC looks to the future at quarterly meeting

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, businesses across the region have been navigating new methods of operation.

Public hearing on Moosehead Lake ski resort project TIF set for April 20

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A public hearing on tax increment financing for the project to develop a ski resort with year-round attractions on 1,700 acres overlooking Moosehead Lake in the unorganized territory outside of Greenville will be part of the next regular Piscataquis County Commissioners meeting at 8:30 a.

Puritan thinks COVID-19 testing swabs will be in demand even as vaccines pick up

By David Marino Jr.

Maine gets record share of COVID-19 vaccine doses as small pharmacies join federal program

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine is seeing a record of at least 88,000 new first doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week as the supply to retail pharmacies through a federal program jumped nearly 50 percent with the addition of independent pharmacies.

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