Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High School STUDENTS OF THE MONTH — Dexter Regional High School is pleased to announce the December Students of the Month as selected by the faculty and staff for being exemplary students.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — An interest in horses led to a dental practice that has been in operation for more than three and a half decades.

Nominations are now open for the 2023 County Teachers of the Year and 2024 State Teacher of the Year.

Recurring Events Mondays DEXTER: The Abbott Museum is open 10 a.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Maine Highlands Council for the Arts is pleased to present local harpist Isleen Halvorsen in concert at 3 p.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Dover-Foxcroft residents and businesses can expect an increase in disposal fees starting in February.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Rev.

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DEXTER — For the safety of all involved, the fishing portion of the Dexter Fish & Game Association’s annual Ice Fishing Derby that had been scheduled for this weekend has been canceled due to poor ice conditions on Lake Wassookeag.

ORONO — State food safety specialist and UMaine alumnus Jason Bolton has been named associate dean at University of Maine Cooperative Extension.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 helped ignite a surge of people heading into the Maine outdoors — and that trend continued in 2022.

MONSON — Monson Arts, an art center and artist residency program located in Monson, opens the winter exhibition, “Artists of the Maine Highlands: Today and Tomorrow.

GUILFORD — On Sunday, Dec.

SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan Savings celebrated the holiday season with their second annual “Season of Giving” by donating $20,000 to 20 local nonprofits.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is accepting registrations for a special interest club where youth ages 9-18 can explore basic engineering concepts.

The sixth annual WinterKids Winter Games begins next week with 15 schools competing statewide to win a total of $30,000 for their schools! Milo Elementary School will be representing Piscataquis County.

Adrienne Clarke of Dover-Foxcroft and Suzannah Sinclair of Greenville are the newest members of the Maine Community Foundation’s Piscataquis County Grantmaking Committee.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff The Bangor region’s largest health care system will turn to a national company to manage most behind-the-scenes administrative functions, in one of Northern Light Health’s latest money-saving moves to bounce back from the financial toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.