Once again the Maine Whoopie Pie Festival kicked off on the Saturday morning with the Piscataquis Regional YMCA’s Earn Your Whoopie Pie 3K and Kids’ 1K Fun Run, with both races starting on River Street on June 23.

Two Americana bands for the price of one at 7 p.m. at the Wayside Theatre on Saturday, June 30. The bands are Timberdoodle and then Three Yankees and One Hillbilly.

Smelt runs up lake tributaries are always a sight to see. Some are better than others. The first one you ever see, with thousands of slithering, wiggling silver fish fighting their way upstream under the glow of the flashlight, leaves an impression.

Rico Portalatin, 47 of Milo, turned in one of the top times at the 2018 Shipyard Old Port Half-Marathon on June 23. Portalatin covered the 13.1 miles in 1 hour, 17 minutes and 27 seconds, placing him seventh overall in a field of 2,825 finishers.

Rep. Paul Stearns, R-Guilford is pleased to announce that he has recently received an endorsement from the Maine Conservation Voters Action Fund.

Most of us probably found in our mailboxes this week a legislative survey from our state representatives. The plain looking survey arrives as a brochure-size trifold on plain white paper marked “Legislative Survey Enclosed,” with an upper left corner black-and-white photo of my State Rep. Thick black photo border lines remind me of obituary photos on Mass cards.

All children under the age of 18 will again be able to enjoy free summer meals in the SAD 41 communities, with no sign up required. The summer meals schedule is as follows:

Lately there’s been a lot of good news about young people moving to Maine to start a new business and a new life, all the while being engaged in their local community. Such is the case with Backwoods Harvest Company LLC, a family organization who bought the former Autumn Brook Farm on East Road in Greenville.

To the Editor; The 2018 Maine Whoopie Pie Festival has successfully concluded and on behalf of the Center Theatre and the Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce we wanted to thank everyone involved for their help and support.

Before the trip down the East Outlet of the Kennebec River even began, guide Dan Legere offered a warning to Bangor’s Michael McCarthy.