DOVER-FOXCROFT — Three unearned runs on one play in the second inning would turn out to be all the Dexter Regional High School softball team needed on the scoreboard as the Tigers defeated Foxcroft Academy 9-2 in an interclass matchup on May 12 at the Morton Avenue field.

GUILFORD — One week after her 98th birthday, Barbara (Ladd) Reardon was presented the Boston Post Cane from Guilford Town Manager Johanna Turner.

Think back on an experience you had with an educator who took the time to connect you to opportunities outside of the classroom and to your local community.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff As the son and grandson of Registered Maine Guides, Jerry Packard naturally became one himself.

District meeting set for June 1 DEXTER — The SAD 46 School Board approved a proposed 2023-24 budget totaling $16,025,870 during a May 3 meeting at the Ridge View Community School.

Photo courtesy of SeDoMoCha School STUDENTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT — The SeDoMoCha School of Dover-Foxcroft held its April Students in the Spotlight award presentation on April 27, as educators selected students based on accountability.

Maine’s education commissioner sees a proposed regional high school serving districts in Piscataquis and Penobscot counties as a model for future education.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Rob Hannigan has been fishing at Brassua Lake his entire life.

BREWER — Jerry Packard, a longtime guide in the Sebec Lake region and the fourth generation operator of Packard’s Camps, was recently presented with the Wiggie Robinson Legendary Maine Guide Award by Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Deputy Commissioner Tim Peabody at the Maine Professional Guides Association annual banquet in Brewer.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Each month 440 households visit the Piscataquis Regional Food Center at 76 North Street, located in the former Agway building, to supplement their groceries.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A proposed budget totaling $6,859,775 for the 2023-24 fiscal year was approved at the annual town meeting in the Morton Avenue Municipal Building Gymnasium on the morning of Saturday, April 22.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Melanie Loyzim has put a Canadian company on notice that it must demonstrate more urgency and diligence in cleaning up after a freight train derailed on April 15 in Sandwich Academy Grant in Somerset County.

DEXTER — On Friday, April 14, Dexter Regional High School students took time to recharge, connect with peers and staff, and learn about the resources available to them at a Mental Health Day coordinated by the school’s Positive Action Team.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Two corrections officers at the Piscataquis County Jail received recognition Tuesday for saving the life of an inmate who had overdosed on opioids.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County’s commissioners decided Tuesday to shift millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief money from an emergency radio overhaul to HVAC system upgrades at the jail.

Maine’s third attempt at a rural regional high school is in jeopardy if the four districts involved cannot get state help to pay for an engineering study.

By Sarah Walker Caron, Bangor Daily News Staff A Canadian Pacific freight train derailed in Sandwich Academy Grant Township outside of Rockwood in Somerset County early Saturday, setting the surrounding forest on fire, according to the Maine Forest Service.

Maine’s public school districts facing the end of federal COVID-19 relief aid are trying to keep positions that helped students through tough pandemic times.