PRESQUE ISLE – The University of Maine at Presque Isle and the Alumni Association will present six awards of distinction during the upcoming Homecoming 2022 activities, including an honor for Paul Stearns of Guilford.

DEXTER — Dexter Regional Airport was awarded $760,000 several months ago for a new terminal building and reconstruction of the access road.

The Appalachian Mountain Club launched See the Dark, a public awareness program to highlight the importance of the night sky and elevate understanding of the impact of light pollution.

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to appoint  Leesah Patt as its new Disadvantaged Business Services specialist.

Photos courtesy of April Taylor READING SPACE – A library for children in the after school program at the Piscataquis Regional YMCA in Dover-Foxcroft opened on Sept.

Many of the events may not be happening as listed due to COVID-19.

GREENVILLE — A company plans to install a biochar manufacturing line at the shuttered Greenville Steam Co.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — To cope with a shortage that is affecting area districts as well as school units across the state and country, a pair of substitute teachers at the SeDoMoCha School have worked to launch a substitute training program for RSU 68.

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to appoint Madeline Bradfield to the newly created role of director of youth services.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – Michael Levinsky will give three classes on Tuesdays at the Central Hall Commons on Tuesdays Sept.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff This week’s question comes to us from me, Emily Burnham, a lifelong Mainer and person with very strong opinions about pizza.

DEXTER – The Harold J.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — As part of our 100th anniversary celebration of the marriage of Dover and Foxcroft, we had planned on a historic walking tour along Main Street – visiting about 85 properties including their history and their owners.

BROWNVILLE — If you’ve driven through Brownville recently, you must have seen the covered signs at the ends of each of the town’s three bridges.

By Lindsay Putnam, Bangor Daily News Staff There’s no shortage of hiking trails in Maine that you can conquer with your four-legged friend.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff At the Port of Saint John in New Brunswick, 70 miles east of the Maine border, there’s been a flurry of change recently, and it’s been aggressively expanded to handle more vessels looking to deliver shipments to the East Coast.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff As more freight trains travel across Maine between northern Washington County and northern Somerset County, rural towns along the route have had to balance their hopes for improving their local economies with logistical challenges presented by the increased rail traffic.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre will be restarting its free after school program for high school students on Sept.