Proceeds to benefit ‘New Beginnings’ Shiretown Homecoming in early AugustBy Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — A late March tradition continues in 2013 as the Maine Maple Sunday Breakfast will be served on Sunday, March 24 at the Dover-Foxcroft fire station from 7-10 a.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     MONSON — Prior to starting Monday’s town meeting, Selectman Shawn Nelson explained to the 28 residents assembled in the Monson Community Center about the economic challenges facing small towns in Maine based on Governor Paul LePage’s plans for balancing future state budgets.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     ABBOT — Residents laid the Abbot Cemetery Corporation to rest on Monday night by voting to take responsibility for the private organization.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     PARKMAN — Residents didn’t make many changes in their municipal budget as they easily approved  a spending package which shows less than a 1 percent increase.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — On March 25 Dover-Foxcroft resident and 23-year-old Army helicopter pilot Tysen Ober will be departing to run cross country, traveling across the U.

Having just wiped the whipped cream out his eyes, SeDoMoCha Middle School grade 8 math teacher Ryan Nickerson is forced to take an extra large helping of the topping to the face thrown by eighth-grader Marie Hartung during the school’s PI Day on March 14.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     GUILFORD — Three Piscataquis Community Secondary School male eighth-graders will no longer be attending school in the district.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DEXTER — The council unanimously voted on March 14 to write off 25 of 31 uncollectable personal business property taxes passed due since 2006.

Public meeting March 27 at Penquis ValleyBy Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     MILO — As a way to provide more opportunities for the district’s students and to increase sources of revenues, officials in SAD 41 have been working on a plan that would realign some of the grades and programs.

Piscataquis Community Secondary School Principal Kevin Harrington welcomes Piscataquis County Sheriff Investigator Allen Emerson into the school on March 19 to monitor the hallways for unsafe behavior.