By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DEXTER — Swimming and operating watercraft at high speeds are not supposed to take place around the “no wake zone” at Lake Wassookeag channel in Dexter.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     MILO — With students returning for a new school year in approximately a month and a half, officials in SAD 41 are busy readying for the pupils’ return with teaching positions being filled, new programs getting up and running and classrooms being prepared.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GARLAND — Residents of Garland enacted a 180-day moratorium on any development related to the proposed east-west corridor at a special town meeting on July 10.

By Nikky RaneySpecial to The Piscataquis Observer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Karen and Fred Cookson were left with nothing but the clothes on their backs when a fire completely destroyed their working farm Sunday afternoon.

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    BANGOR — Courtney Edgerly of Dover-Foxcroft made the University of Maine at Augusta-Bangor Dean’s List for the spring 2013 semester.

Congratulations to Melody Webber, who is an administrator of the Children’s Rehabilitative & Community Support Services program for the Charlotte White Center.

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    GUILFORD — There are some very exciting additions to this year’s River Festival on Saturday, July 27.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Daniel D.