MILO — Due to a low number of players, Penquis Valley High School will not have a softball team for the 2024 season.

SeDoMoCha principal will be departing for DRHS DOVER-FOXCROFT — RSU 68 officials are continuing work on developing the budget for the 2024-25 academic year.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Last month the Dover-Foxcroft Select Board voted to accept a recommendation from the Mayo Mill Dam steering committee that removing the dam and connecting facilities and building a riverfront park is in the town’s best interests moving forward.

DEXTER — Students from six schools across the region wanting to make a difference came together to take part in workshops, share what they are doing, and brainstorm ideas all focused on leading positive change in their schools and communities at the Positive Action Team Summit on Friday, March 22 at Dexter Regional High School.

GREENVILLE — Congressionally directed spending requests for rehabilitating the steamboat Katahdin and constructing new Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation antennas have been granted at $500,000 and $3,342,000 respectively.

By Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News Staff Two organizations are appealing the Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to award a potentially $1 billion contract to an out-of-state company, with a history of complaints, to arrange transportation for Medicaid patients who have no other way to get to doctor appointments, dialysis and cancer treatments.

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Planning Board has been busy working on several ordinances to get these ready for a vote at the annual town meeting on Monday, June 3.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The construction process to move the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center from the cramped conditions of the Piscataquis County Jail in Dover-Foxcroft into the administrative unit of the sheriff’s office on the first floor of the same larger building is underway.

DEXTER — Before 2023 Dexter and other Maine communities had been able to keep net proceeds from sales of tax-acquired properties that exceeded the amount of taxes owed by the property owner.

MILO — With the municipal audit awaiting completion, over a dozen articles on the warrant for the 2024 annual meeting were not voted on by the two dozen residents gathered in the Ed Wingler Auditorium upstairs at the Milo Town Hall on the evening of March 11.