In the 1980s and early 1990s, in May and June, you could catch a fresh run Atlantic salmon on the Penobscot River. And you could play your king of game fish within eyeshot of downtown Bangor. As a result, salmon clubs popped up along the river banks like ostrich ferns.

Fourteen members of the Abbott Memorial Library’s Book Club met on April 25 to celebrate the club’s 10th anniversary. An anniversary dinner was served featuring foods of the 1950s, members had just completed reading David Halberstam’s ”The Fifties.”

Mayo Regional Hospital has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement a new integrated electronic health record (HER) and revenue cycle solutions across it acute and ambulatory facilities. This agreement provides the hospital with sophisticated health care technology that will support Mayo doctors, nurses and staff as they work to streamline operations and improve patient care.

The Center Theatre for the Performing Arts announced that it will be hosting the first annual Central Maine Talent Search. The event, which will offer cash and other prizes totaling close to $2,000, will consist of three preliminary events in June, July and August and a grand finale in September. Entrants must be at least 10 years old, can perform any entertaining talent either by themselves or with two other people, and cannot have been paid more than $500 to perform their talent in the past year.

John Williams is an accused cop-killer. The police believe, with a great deal of very credible evidence, that Williams is responsible for the shooting death of Cpl. Eugene Cole, after a confrontation in Norridgewock.

Foxcroft Academy is pleased to announce the honor parts for this year’s graduating class, the 195th class in school history. The Valedictorian is Jenna Clukey and the Salutatorian is Avery Nelson.

The dysfunction – and frankly, absurdity – in politics today has forced the courts to be the arbiter of last resort on issues that rightly should never come before them.

Organizers are getting ready for the 2018 Arts Alive event at Piscataquis Community Elementary School in Guilford. The Arts Alive tradition dates back to 1982 and this year’s event is scheduled for Friday, June 8. Over 100 volunteers will be coming to the school to share their talents and skills as students in pre-kindergarten through grade 8 take part in various activities and projects, which in past years from ranged from shaving cream art to drumming to karate.

Maine Woods Forever is pleased to announced that the Greenville-based Natural Resource Education Center (NREC) Maine Woods Explorers program is one of three recipients of the 2018 Teddy Roosevelt Maine Conservation Award – a youth-oriented award created to recognize young people and youth groups whose efforts are in the spirit of Roosevelt’s conservation ethic and achievements. The award recognizes what Maine’s youth are doing to appreciate and conserve their forest heritage. It also encourages them to become future conservation leaders.

Upcoming events around the region.