By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     GUILFORD — The SAD 4 board of directors welcomed four new members on April 9 who received a quick introduction into the financial challenge facing the state’s educators.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     GUILFORD — Three recent bomb scares in SAD 4 schools have left students and parents alike in a frenzied state of mind.

Piscataquis Community Elementary School first-graders, from left, Scott Chadbourne, Kaileigh Elderkin and Dominic Cookson, swivel their hips to make their hula hoops go round and round on April 11 during the annual Jump Rope for Heart celebration.

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    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC/Miosac Club held its hobby night meeting at Thayer Parkway on April 2.

    AUGUSTA — Central Maine Power Company (CMP), a subsidiary of Iberdrola USA, reports growing consumer interest following its launch of a rebate program for customers who install new electric thermal storage (ETS) heating units in their homes.

KELLY, Scott Anthony, 79, of Fryebrug & Elliotsville, ME, at Auburn, March 30, 2013.

BUCK, Olive “Nellie” Strout, 83, of Sebec, at Dover-Foxcroft, April 4, 2013.

    CAMBRIDGE — Ten would-be apple tree pruners and grafters gathered at Sam Brown’s orchard in Cambridge Saturday morning, March 30 for a few hours of hands-on instruction by Heron Breen of St.

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