Cub Scout Pack 61 held its annual Pinewood Derby on March 10 at the Grace Bible Church in Sangerville.

Makayla McKenzie and Briana Spaulding, both of Dexter, visited the Statehouse for SkillsUSA Championship Day on April 9. During their day in Augusta the pair were congratulated by their Sen. Paul Davis, R-Sangerville.

Rural Maine, Small Town Maine, and Farm Town Maine, are slowly decaying into their own landscape. The greater sadness is that the factors to their demise are beyond the control of Small Town Maine. No, this is not even the tale of little communities who cannot keep up with the changing times or technologies; but instead, is the story, to often told in Maine, of bureaucratic government’s abuse, corruption, and overreach and the cowardice of those, who should, to curtail it.

Al Larson’s April 7 letter to the editor (in the Bangor Daily News) makes it sound like the woods are full of hunters using AR-15s with magazines that hold a large amount of ammunition.

Nineteen pieces created by students at Foxcroft Academy and Piscataquis Community High School of Guilford were on display at the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC)/Miosac Club’s annual art show, which was supported by the local Kiwanis club, on March 25 in the lobby of the Center Theatre.

We’d like Dover-Foxcroft pet owners to take a moment and look at the world through their dog’s eyes. Eating, sleeping and playing take up most of their day. The one job they do have, at least in their minds, is protecting their turf and their family.

U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Angus King, I-Maine announced that Maine Superior Court Justice Lance Walker, a native of Piscataquis County, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine.

Upcoming events around the region.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Joe Siccardi, a recent mid-Maine transplant, has announced the public book launch of his first book “Heaven Shining Through.

Four generations of the Jackson family were together.