DOVER-FOXCROFT — Earlier this year town officials and residents in and around Piscataquis and Penobscot counties formed a broadband coalition to deal with ongoing poor internet connectivity.

MILO — A slightly adjusted proposed 2022-23 SAD 41 budget totaling $10,818,490 was approved during the annual district budget meeting in the Walter “Eddie” Oakes Gymnasium at the Penquis Valley School on Monday.

A county with virtually no treatment centers for opioid addiction had the second worst fatal overdose rate among rural counties last year in Maine.

DEXTER — A proposed $16,425,377 SAD 46 budget for the 2022-23 academic year was approved at the annual district meeting on June 2 at the Ridge View Community School.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A $12,817,099 RSU 68 budget for the 2022-23 academic year was approved on Tuesday, May 31, during the annual district budget meeting at the SeDoMoCha School.

GUILFORD — Wendy and Michael Denney have provided Victorian elegance for the discerning traveler at the Guilford Bed and Breakfast on Elm Street for three years.

MONSON — Veterans from the Civil War to the present with ties to Monson are permanently recognized with their names engraved on a brand new monument.

GUILFORD — A proposed 2022-23 SAD 4 budget totaling $7,772,120 was approved May 25 during the annual district budget meeting held in the Piscataquis Community Elementary School cafeteria.

PCHS’ Nowak reaches semifinals By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff LEWISTON – Lidia Gomez Carrera grew up playing junior tennis in her native Spain, but the senior international student at Maine Central Institute knew little of the other three semifinalists who gathered at Bates College in Lewiston on Monday to crown the state’s 2022 Maine Principals’ Association girls’ singles titlist.

District meeting set for May 31  DOVER-FOXCROFT — The RSU 68 school board formally approved a budget of $12,817,099 for the 2022-23 academic year, during a meeting held May  10 at the SeDoMoCha School.