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GREENVILLE — Join the Shaw Public Library, in partnership with Moosehead Trails, for a presentation by local author and hiker: Chris Keene.

The Dover Low Vision group will be meeting via Zoom from 10-11:30 a.

As a financial institution invested in their communities and neighbors, Acadia Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce they will award $6,000 in scholarships to area high school seniors.

By David Marino Jr.

DEXTER – A free Valentine’s Day spaying/neutering clinic will be held Feb.

Healthy Living for ME has announced the organization’s February schedule of workshops for Mainers.

The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Parks and Lands Visiting Artist Program encourages artists to develop their art through experiencing the wilderness of the state’s most remote park, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway.

Author John Balser of Milo has re-released his book “Mystery on Macomber Hill.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer two advanced beekeeping webinars, two sessions each, beginning with “Honey Bee Diseases and Pests” 6–8:30 p.

GREENVILLE – Destination Moosehead Lake is proud to host the 18th annual Chocolate Festival.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District is excited to kick off its fifth annual Families in the Outdoors series with Snowshoeing Adventure at the Law Farm.

February has been recognized as Browntail Moth Awareness Month in Maine to encourage people to take advantage of the dormant season of the insect and join together to reduce impacts from browntail moth.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Katahdin Valley Health Center is planning to build a new health care facility in Dover-Foxcroft that will expand medical services for low-income and uninsured residents.

ORONO – University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host a virtual wild blueberry conference with 14 biweekly sessions from 4–6 p.

SHIRLEY – Dove Tail Bat Company, a Maine-based manufacturer of baseball bats, has been recognized for manufacturing one of ten 10 new products by Collegiate Baseball.

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

ORONO – University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a five-session online course about soil health science for farmers and agricultural advisors from 5:30–7 p.