MONSON — Monson’s Summerfest takes place Saturday, July 19, an annual celebration of all things summer.

GUILFORD – A month after SAD 4 residents turned down a proposed 2025-26 budget of $9,752,463 — via a count of 282-187 on the ballot across its half dozen communities — a revised spending plan totaling $9,531,320 was approved at a district budget meeting on Tuesday evening at Piscataquis Community Elementary School.

By Annie Rupertus, Bangor Daily News Staff Despite seeming to be in free fall for months, Northern Light Health insists it’s not looking to sell its hospitals — and experts say the health care system can avoid that drastic step if it acts quickly.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff The “nerdy” changes within Penobscot County’s criminal justice system are what District Defender Logan Perkins is most proud of during her first year on the job.

Grade 12, highest honors: Lucy Alexander, Keira Bennett, Addyson Brown, McKenzie Clay, Lillian Cooley, Cole Doherty, Preslee Dow, Chase Farnsworth, Avery Fogler, Claire Fogler, Amelia Greaves, Megan Hreben, Emily Manter, Willis Rienhardt, Aleandra Vafiades, Brianna Vafiades; high honors: Sunny Bache, Seth Craig, Teegn Day, Fannie Patel, Elizabeth Roberts; honors: Issiah Amazeen, Ariel Anderson, Jason Bowden, Abigail Bradley, Thomas Burgess, Alice Childers, Ethan Doherty, Kelsey Doore, Kayleigh Dunton, Alexander Gilbert-Noke, Andrea Gilman, Olivia Higgins, Gabrielle Judkins, Kenzie Kimball, Carolyn Lufkin, Trevor Picariello, Sabrina Pike.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — For seven and half decades Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis Charities has invited the community to come and bid on items of all sorts at the organization’s annual Summer Auction.

SANGERVILLE — When 7-year-old Jeffrey Landry of Parkman stops by Northern Light CA Dean Hospital’s pediatric occupational therapy room on Haley Court in Sangerville he swings from a trapeze, jumps on a trampoline, goes through an obstacle course and finds a specific object in a collage of various images.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Years from now when the new East Main Street bridge carries vehicle and pedestrian traffic over the Piscataquis River it likely will have been named in honor of a pair of Dover-Foxcroft brothers who both died in service of their country in a World War II prisoner of war camp.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Registration is now open for the second annual Walk for Hope, a fundraising event to benefit cancer care services in Piscataquis County.

By Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News Staff Brandon Bishop remembers vividly the first time he saw a dead moose infested with thousands of ticks.

By Kasey Turman, Bangor Daily News Staff DOVER-FOXCROFT — When Eli Towne was the first permanent settler in Dover in 1803, the Piscataquis River flowed freely through town.

BANGOR — Second-seeded Washington Academy of East Machias scored the only run of the entire game in the first inning to defeat the No.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre and the Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce announced that over 10,000 people attended the 2025 Maine Whoopie Pie Festival at the Piscataquis Valley Fairgrounds on June 14.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High SchoolSTUDENTS OF THE YEAR — At Senior Assembly at Dexter Regional High School, Students of the Year were awarded.

LEWISTON — The Piscataquis Community High School girls tennis team fell in the Class C championship and the Foxcroft Academy boys tennis team lost in the Class B championship on Wednesday, June 11 at Bates College.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Dover-Foxcroft residents overwhelmingly voted not to invest millions to repair the Mayo Mill Dam.

HAMPDEN — The Foxcroft Academy boys tennis team won the Class B North championship and the Piscataquis Community High School girls tennis team won the Class C North championship on Saturday, June 7 at the Armstrong Tennis Center.

By Wendy Watkins, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine residents and first responders saluted as police escorted the remains of WWII Pvt.