MILO — With the intention of providing more opportunities for area youth and to potentially save money, Brownville and Milo officials have been discussing the possibility of merging the two neighboring communities’ recreation departments into a new Penquis Recreation Program.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A preliminary concept design for downtown Dover-Foxcroft transportation improvements for the Villages Partnership Initiative Project has been completed by Gorrill Palmer with input from the Maine Department of Transportation.

BROWNVILLE — Grade 3 students at the Brownville Elementary School now have thousands of words and accompanying definitions at their fingertips, along with other assorted facts.

By Stuart Hedstrom, Staff Writer BANGOR — Foxcroft Academy jumped out to a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter during a Class D North football game at John Bapst Memorial High School on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct.

BANGOR — Versant Power has made a $20,000 donation to Penquis’ heating assistance program that helps heat Maine families’ homes this winter.

GREENVILLE — In July the Greenville Planning Board heard a proposal concerning nearly 60 acres of land in Greenville Junction off North Green Street, on the peninsula going into Moosehead Lake on the eastern shore of the West Cove, to be developed into 15 lots of varying sizes making up what is now known as the Timberline Subdivision.

GREENVILLE — With costly repairs needed to the surface underneath the ice and the warming shack needing to be replaced, the Greenville municipal skating rink will be closed for the upcoming season.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC/Miosac Club met at the Dover-Foxcroft Congregational Church Tuesday, Oct.

By Lindsay Putnam, Bangor Daily News Staff The Bangor Daily News won the top honor of Maine’s best daily newspaper and reporter Sawyer Loftus was named the state’s journalist of the year at the Maine Press Association’s annual conference Saturday, Oct.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Before the end of fall work is scheduled to be done on a section of the Pleasant Street sidewalk.