By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department vehicle fleet is in rough shape with several patrol vehicles approaching 140,000 miles on their odometers.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County results came in slowly on Election Night.

Observer photo/Mike Lange The finale at Monday’s SAD 4 Veterans’ Day ceremony was a rendition of “Yankee Doodle Dandy” by the PCES 3rd graders, directed by Sheryl Allen.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     MILO — In the current school year, over 50 students in grades 9-12 at Penquis Valley High School are involved in Jobs for Maine’s Graduates (JMG), an organization with a mission to identify students who face barriers to education and to guide each one on to a successful path toward continued education, a meaningful career and a productive adulthood.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Facing his first challenge on the ballot in more than 20 years, Piscataquis County Sheriff John Goggin was re-elected last week by a 4,664-3,086 vote over Dover-Foxcroft Police Chief Dennis Dyer.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     BROWNVILLE — Students at the Brownville Elementary School gave a big thank you to all who have served as each grade presented during a Veterans Day assembly on the afternoon of Nov.

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For Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, purple ribbons were placed at town welcome signs, including Dover-Foxcroft’s on Route 15, throughout Piscataquis and Penobscot counties.

The Hibbard Skilled Nursing Center in Dover-Foxcroft invited residents, families and staff members to bring in their children to trick or treat.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis Public Health Council, a local Healthy Maine Partnership (HMP) in partnership with Mayo Regional Hospital and Maine’s Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, is providing the following free trainings:     Training for Intervention Procedures (TIPS) on Wednesday, Nov.