DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy Booster Club members are often busy manning the snack shack at sporting events and cooking menu items and raising funds in a variety of ways to benefit student-athletes and their programs.

Each year the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District recognizes and honors a Cooperator (land manager) in Piscataquis County who has implemented exceptional conservation practices.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — For The Raven’s Attic East owner Jody Arno, it is a thrill to go through some old boxes and see what she may find inside such as when she is working to clean out an estate.

MILO — Much of the work done by SAD 41 Board of Directors’ finance and capital improvement committees overlaps, such as looking into budgeting projects at district schools.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Students in RSU 68/Foxcroft Academy have been attending classes for nearly a week and administrators have said the 2024-25 academic year has gotten off to great start, as they told the RSU 68 School board during a meeting at the SeDoMoCha School on Tuesday, Sept.

By Aislinn Sarnacki The jagged backbone of a stone giant, Knife Edge stretched before us.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff The federal government wants to seize two more houses in central Maine allegedly used for illegally growing marijuana.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Three girls will reign as Miss Maple in three respective age groups for the next year after being crowned during the ninth annual Miss Maple Pageant on Saturday morning, Aug.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Swedish reunion group began on Aug.

MILO — American Legion Post 4 had a local man volunteer to refurbish the “Welcome Veterans” sign outside of the Post on West Main Street.

Observer photo/Stuart HedstromROAD LOCOMOTIVE — CPKC’s Puffer Belly Express, which visits communities across the CPKC network to help raise awareness of rail safety, travels up Davis Street on Saturday, Aug.

GREENVILLE — A full field of area golfers spent a memorable day at the beautiful Mount Kineo Golf Course on Aug.

GUILFORD — On Monday, Aug.

Observer photo/Stuart HedstromEVERYONE’S A WEINER – The seventh edition of the Maine Red Hot Dog Festival was held in downtown Dexter on Saturday, Aug.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff The group that runs Greater Bangor’s meal delivery program for older residents is still facing a six-figure funding gap despite months of fundraising — and the waitlist for the service has only grown.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Just over three weeks before the start of classes on Wednesday, Aug.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — DOVER-FOXCROFT — For four years Piscataquis County and municipal emergency officials have been working to update outdated infrastructure and long-running problems with the county’s radio communications for emergency personnel.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — For Marilou “LuLu” Ranta, winning a James Beard award wasn’t nearly as exciting as the morning she spent at the federal courthouse.