Upcoming events around the region.

The lineup for the Sept. 8 New England Fights “Wicked Season” mixed martial arts card at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor is beginning to take shape with several local fighters already set to compete.

The Brownville-Brownville Junction Historical Society is pleased to announce Ken Hatchette’s latest book “The Canadian Pacific Railroad in Brownville Junction, Maine 1886 to 1963” is available now at the Parish House Museum on Church Street, Simple Sacks on the Main Road and the Milo and Points North Visitors Center on the Gerrish Road.

An event-packed day for all the family will be at the 2018 Monson Summer Festival on Saturday, July 21.

The Foxcroft Youth Track program took part in a USATF Maine Group D meet on July 12 at Old Town High School.

It’s not too early to sign up for 2018 production. Local Window Dressers volunteers in the Dover-Foxcroft region are making appointments now to measure windows for cost-saving insulating window inserts. Window Dressers is a four-year old non-profit supporting barnraiser-like community builds in local communities in Maine, gathering neighbors to help neighbors build the inserts.

President Donald Trump is taking quite a risk if he succeeds in putting an anti-pro choice judge on the Supreme Court. He faces the fact that the big majority of women in this country support a woman's right to choose.

On Sunday, July 15 at approximately 7:15 p.m. Danny Adams, 53, of Farmington, was driving his ATV north along the railroad bed trail when his ATV left the trail and struck some small trees, according to the Maine Warden Service. Adams, who was carrying two juvenile passengers at the time, received serious injuries as a result of the crash.

I’m always filled with wonder when I hit the view atop Indian Hill before heading down into the village of Greenville. It catches my breath, anytime of year and especially after a long drive. Moosehead Lake stretches out to the horizon, cradled by ridges and mountains and overarched by an ever-changing sky.

Yesterday morning, July 12, I got up at 4:30 — my usual time; went downstairs, filled the bathroom sink with hot water, wet and brushed my hair, washed my face, then shaved. A new wrinkle just above my upper lip has me creating new ways of getting a clean shave. One small challenge of getting older while keeping a hairless face, I guess.