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

The Foxcroft Academy outdoor track and field teams took part in the Penobscot Valley Conference (PVC) Large School Championship on May 27 at Mount Desert Island High School. The Pony boys finished with a score of 28 points to place seventh among 10 schools, and the girls from Foxcroft came in ninth in a field of 10 teams with 16 points.

It is a rare Mainer who isn't fascinated, or at least curious, when it comes to tales from the Maine Warden Service.

The Piscataquis Community Secondary School (PCSS) proudly announces Bailey Woodard as the Class of 2017 Valedictorian.

The Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce will host a Business After Hours and ribbon cutting for Chloe’s Collections, a full-service florist formerly of Parkman. The event for Chamber members will be on Thursday, June 1 from 5-7 p.m. at the 1 North Street location.

Jamie Russell has amassed over 340 victories in 32 seasons coaching boys high school basketball at Central High School of Corinth, Penobscot Valley High School in Howland and, most recently, Piscataquis Community High School in Guilford. Now he will try his hand at coaching a girls basketball team. On May 22 Russell was approved by the RSU 64 Board of Directors as the coach at Central.

Chris Clukey, certified audiologist of Dover Audiology, spoke about age-related hearing loss at the Abbott Memorial Library's Skeleton Crew meeting in Dexter earlier in the month.

May and June events

Since my wife and I are getting on in years, we decided it would be prudent for us to find a primary care provider a littler closer to home than our previous in Bangor. We made an appointment with a doctor’s office (I will not say who it is, or where it is for discretionary reasons).

For a town attempting to rebuild itself, to energize its growth potential and expand business opportunities, Dover-Foxcroft’s Charter Revision Commission appears to have done everything possible to reverse that process.