For years now, the Bucks Mills Rod & Gun Club near Bucksport has put on a sumptuous prime rib dinner for Maine Game Wardens, active or retired. It’s quite a hoedown. The wardens get to eat for free. It is the club’s way of showing its appreciation for the hard work and personal sacrifice that is part of the professional lot of most career game wardens.

Today I had the honor of participating in Dover-Foxcroft’s Memorial Day Parade. It is a celebration of our community and the connections between all of us who live here in our wonderful small town.

The Foxcroft Academy Key Club was very happy to present Pine Tree Hospice and the Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance with a set of Key Clubby Bears for their work with young children.

The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District has selected PCSS' Heather Doherty as recipient of its Outstanding Conservation Educator of the Year Award.

Bob Norcott recently spent several days refurbishing the sign greeting those coming into Sebec Village

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The Milo Events Committee invites the public to join a day of fun and festivities with the annual Black Fly Festival on Saturday, June 3. The theme this year is “Remembering the 50s.”

On May 18 Sen. Paul Davis (R-Sangerville) welcomed Clifford Wiley of Dover-Foxcroft and his family to the Statehouse to receive a Legislative Sentiment in the House of Representatives honoring his 95th birthday.

Kiley Eckstein of Garland is among the first-place winners of the 2017 Maine Constitution Essay and Poster Contest.

Recently NAMI Family and Friends heard about Penquis programs to help parents build good relationships with their children from Community Parent Educator Stephen Madera.