Grade 12, high honors: Grady Atkinson, Hope Lovell, Emily McKinnon, Jonathan Paquette, and Mikal Sickler; honors: April Badger, Benjamin Bouley, Angela Bryden, Justin Chambers, Trinity Moulton-Moors, Maxwell Osgood, Alvin Robshaw, and Desirea Stanley.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff He was a beloved institution at Piscataquis Community High School in Guilford.

SACO – The Maine Field Hockey Association’s 13th annual Maine Field Hockey Festival will take place on Saturday, July 16 at Thornton Academy in Saco.

More than $45,000 in Maine Community Foundation grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Piscataquis County.

Grade 12, high honors: Alan Abolnik Ribe, Jasmine Baravaglio Alves, Filip Brkic, Grace Carlson, Aine Casey, Rebekah Demers, Cheyanne Desautell, Anh Alice Doan, Pierce Fagan, Daisy Foster, Kasey Howell, Joshua Michael Lemanski, Alicia London, Kaitlyn Lord, Jasper Makowski, Kate Neville, Nguyen Nhat Leo Nguyen, Anastasia Peirce, Connor Plante, Klara Puskeilerova, Isabel Qualey, Aleshia Raymond, Jacob Reed, Ruby Rideout, Bryson Ross, Makenzie Sands, Austin Seavey, and Meghan Spooner; honors: Nathanael Brown, Marshall  Burt, Carolina Caruzo Gomes dos Santos,  Nadia Chokki, Alexis Cole, Gabriel Coutinho Cavalini, Rodrigo Diaz Arrigunaga, Emily Fuller, Cadence Gil, Emily Harmon-Weeks, James Jankunas, Benjamin Johnston, Dameon Lyford, Reece McCarty, Olivia McCorrison, Carter Merrill, Kylie Merritt, Anh Ngoc Tu Nguyen, Cameron Parlee, Anh Julia Phan, Maxwell Rosso, Max Schnetzer, Anthony Smith, Corbin Toner,  Joseph Wertz, and Seojin Sarah Yoo.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Hearing the haunting call of a common loon echoing across the water can be exhilarating.

By Nancy Battick As I write this column inflation is at an all-time high, prices soaring skyward, product shortages common, people flinch as they fill their cars and we’re all making nips and tucks to our budgets.

Grade 12, highest honors: Anthony Germano and Ruth Griffith; high honors: Hannah Dow, Taylor Folsom, and Hailee Hartford; honors: Daniel Adams, Grace Buehne, Kaitlyn Cupero, Ariana Fanjoy, Rylee Fillmore, Sarah Gray, Trevor Hathorn, Sydney Hutchins, MacKenzie Kain, Elizabeth Kendall, Gianna Kopf, Alexandria Maguire, Christina Maguire, Benjamin Martin, Jessie Mayberry, Austin McLaughlin, Shania Milano, Aiden Miller, Aliyah Ouellette, and Courtney Quimby.

The Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft has announced that they are holding a series of free theater workshops for older adults in Greenville and Dover-Foxcroft.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR – The new artificial turf surface and the surrounding eight-lane track at Cameron Stadium allowed Bangor to host the Class D state championship football game last fall and the state Class A boys and girls track meet this spring.