DEXTER — The American Legion 14th District — Piscataquis County will hold its regular meeting and election of officers on Saturday, April 19 in Dexter.

BREWER — Northern Light Health is excited to release our 2024 annual report.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff A transgender woman from Monson will compete in the Miss Maine USA pageant next month, marking the first time an openly transgender woman will vie for the title.

BANGOR — The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, has awarded Penquis a $20,000 grant to support its commitment to strengthening communities.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — On the night of April 18, 1775, two lanterns were hung in the tower of Boston’s Old North Church as a signal to Paul Revere, across the river in Charlestown, that the British regulars were moving “by sea” across the Back Bay to Cambridge in order to begin their march to seize powder and munitions in Concord.

Grade eight, high honors: Alexis Ames, Ella Annis, Alexis Arcaro, Lauren Caruso, Tiffany Chan, Elizabeth Deitz, Weston Donahue, Ayla Furman, Michael Kinney, Cooper Knepp, Layla Lanthier, Ryan McGary, Hunter McKusick-Slama, Olvia Mishio, Adalynn Rayfield, Carey Sullivan, Owen White; honors: Gabriel Chambers, Emma Crossman, Alex Hanson, Jeremii Hutchinson-Mallory, Kloey Merrill, Elodie Vail, Elsa Vandermast, Donovan Williams.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Outdoors is a beat that almost no other paper in the country has.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The 29th Annual Variety Show to support Pine Tree Hospice goes on stage at the Center Theater in Dover-Foxcroft at 1 p.

By Emmett Gartner, The Maine Monitor I’ve spent much of the past year reporting on the uncertain futures that await Maine dams.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife expanded the hunting season for gray squirrels by a month and shifted youth waterfowl hunting dates in the north zone to start and end a week later than last year.