Mayo Regional Hospital will soon be celebrating its 40th anniversary. Four decades on from its formation as a regional hospital serving over 13 communities, Mayo Regional Hospital will mark its 40th year Anniversary on from 1-4 p.m. on Monday, April 9 in the Resource Center.

Kaitlyn Webber, a senior at Dexter Regional High School and the daughter of Kevin and Nichole Webber of Garland, has been selected to receive the 2018 Principal's Award, Principal, Stephen Bell announced. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals' Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior's academic achievement and citizenship.

The upcoming spending bill in Congress is being used to sneak in language to repeal or weaken the Johnson Amendment, the law that since 1954 has shielded nonprofit organizations from partisan politicking. That bill must pass by March 23 to keep the federal government from running out of money (and shutting down for a third time this year).

The 2018 Maine Moose Permit Lottery application process is officially open to Maine residents and non-residents alike.

The year was 2008, and the country was in the midst of a presidential election that would eventually hand the White House to Barack Obama.

There’s a strange bipolar effect that happens every election season. We want people to run for office. We want more choice. And then we bemoan the fact that so many people run — writing some folks off prematurely, even before they have a chance to make their case.

The Shaw Public Library recently received a $400 grant from the Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. Library director Linda Wohlforth said the grant will be used to support the purchase of the collection development of a new genre of book titles which will be called “New Age/New Adult.”

At the end of February, three Maine men set out on snowshoes to hike the 100-Mile Wilderness, the most remote section of the Appalachian Trail stretching about 100 miles from Monson to Baxter State Park. They completed the arduous journey, over mountains and across half-frozen streams, in nine days, a feat very few hikers accomplish in the winter.

Partners for Peace, a domestic violence resource center will host two 44-hour trainings, one in Dover-Foxcroft and the other in Bangor, for anyone interested in volunteering with the organization. The first training begins June 16 in Dover-Foxcroft. The second will take place in September in Bangor.

The best way to stop the drug problem in Maine is to concentrate on drug enforcement. If the drug flow into Maine is stopped, then the rehab problem will take care of itself. No drugs, no need for expensive rehab programs.