DOVER-FOXCROFT — Planned demolition for the structure at 72 Lincoln St.

GUILFORD — Residents approved a 2022-23 fiscal year budget totaling $2,959,744 at the annual town meeting at Piscataquis Community Elementary School on Monday evening.

MILO — An age-oriented playground has been in place behind Penquis Valley Middle School since last spring.

MILO — Voters approved an estimated 2022-23 budget of $2.

DOVER-FOXCROFT —  Dover-Foxcroft has secured congressional funding for several bridge replacement projects expected to take place in the coming years, Town Manager Jack Clukey told the Select Board at a meeting Tuesday.

GUILFORD — Many school districts across Maine have switched from universal masking policies to optional and/or conditional masking following revised recommendations from the Maine CDC and Department of Education.

MILO — SAD 41 will be going with optional masking in its three schools starting on Monday, March 14, provided the number of positive COVID-19 cases is below a 5 percent threshold.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — As work continues on the development of the 2022-23 RSU 68 budget, district officials are planning to keep the contributions made by the four district communities the same as in the current academic year.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA – The number of Mainers who have died with COVID-19 surpassed 2,000 on Thursday following a winter surge in the virus driven by highly contagious variants.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — For the 2021-22 academic year, SeDoMoCha School students have been wearing protective face wear under a policy requiring universal masking when Piscataquis County is in the red or the most severe of the community transmission rate — which it has been since classes began.