By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff While Mainers pull the final elements together for total solar eclipse festivities next month, for some folks, this is not their first go-round with such a rare celestial event.

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.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff After more than 30 years traveling throughout the U.

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 Kevin Miller, Maine Public Maine will add two new public defender offices under a bill that passed the Legislature and was signed by Gov.

GREENVILLE – The Moosehead Marine Museum recently received notification that a $500,000 request for Congressionally Directed Spending was approved.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli The weather along the swath of eclipse totality from Mexico to Maine is a big unknown.

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.

GUILFORD — This spring Greenville High School and Piscataquis Community High School will combine for a cooperative softball team, with players from SAD 4 traveling north on Route 15 for practices and home games in which they will wear the Lakers uniform to compete in Class D South.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Sandy Perkins and her husband, David, live in their dream retirement home along the Piscataquis River, where they can watch kingfishers and loons dive and bald eagles soar overhead.

DEXTER — Dexter Regional High School recently held Winter Carnival 2024 Events.

New leaders of the nearly century-old Piscataquis Country Club in Guilford are hoping expanded hours and new offerings draw enough interest to save the golf course from closing.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The construction process to move the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center from cramped conditions in 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 has begun.

By Pete Warner, Special to the Bangor Daily News AUGUSTA – There’s an unbreakable bond that is forged among the members of a high school basketball team.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – The Center Theatre will host a special concert featuring the Pihcintu Multinational Girls Choir at 3 p.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — At last month’s public forum the Mayo Mill Dam steering committee presented its recommendation  that  removing the dam and connecting facilities and building a riverfront park is in the town’s best interests moving forward.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff It was his first time ever to catch a fish through the ice, but Solomon Hadley’s fishing guide thinks it probably won’t be his last.

By Pete Warner, Special to the Bangor Daily News BANGOR — During the last two seasons, the Dexter Regional HIgh School girls basketball team has been in many close games.