The Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Maine Forest Service has been awarded two Community Wildfire Defense Grants to support at-risk communities in Northern and Downeast Maine.

By Nancy Battrick Peter Rowlett, a mathematics columnist for the magazine New Scientist, recently wrote a column of interest to genealogists.

MILO — The Milo Events and Bicentennial Committees invite the public to join a day of fun and festivities at the annual Black Fly Festival on Saturday, June 1.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Portland has its much-vaunted food scene.

To the Editor; We go to Bangor to run errands, take out-of-state visitors and just hang out sometimes.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff OLD TOWN — From Aroostook County to Blue Hill, all of eastern Maine convened in Old Town on Friday, May 24 for the Penobscot Valley Conference small school track championships.

By Leigh Tass, Bangor Daily News Staff CHARLESTON — A man serving a life sentence for killing two Maine teenagers in a landlord-tenant dispute has died in prison.

For the fourth year the Center Theatre for the Performing Arts in Dover-Foxcroft is looking for high school students to perform around the region for the summer.

Observer file photo/Stuart Hedstrom MEMORIAL DAY PARADE — The American Legion Post 41 color guard leads the annual Milo Memorial Day parade across the Henry “Butch” Heal Jr.

GARLAND — The Harold J.