ORONO — Twelve undergraduates have been named 2026 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine, including Jasper Makowski of Dover-Foxcroft and Ruth Griffith of Parkman.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy is promoting from within with assistant coach Kilee Salley being named the new field hockey head coach, announced via a post on the school’s Facebook page.

BREWER — Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings revised its outlook from negative to stable and affirmed its ‘BB-‘ long-term rating for bonds issued by Northern Light Health.

To the Editor; In the past, whenever the price of gasoline would go up and folks would blame the increase on  the incumbent president, I would tell them that presidents have no direct influence on gasoline prices.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension has released a new fact sheet to support individuals who are starting farm enterprises, an effort that often comes with a steep learning curve.

By Kasey Turman, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine counties will get more money for jails in 2027 after years of asking the state to increase funding.

Recurring Events Mondays DEXTER: The Abbott Museum is open 10 a.

By Nancy Battick In years past, our grandmothers were itching to begin spring cleaning, after being shut in all winter and heating with wood or coal.

By Anne Favolise There is a scene in the movie “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” where Luke David Blumm, who plays the young, lost and hungry Donn Fendler, picks something off a boulder to eat as he wanders through the forest below Mount Katahdin.

BANGOR — Husson University junior Abigail Conlogue, a resident of Brownville and a Penquis Valley High School graduate, has been named North Atlantic Conference Field Athlete of the Week for the second time this season.