By Beth Ranagan DEXTER — In 2019 Gatherings 4 Main Street, the site of Dexter’s Seventh Day Adventist Church, opened under the direction of Dawn Tritch, the then assistant minister.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft announced that it will be holding a Whoopie Pie Eating Contest as a fundraiser on Sunday, Sept.

By Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff HOULTON — Some of Maine’s rivers have the lowest water levels they’ve seen in decades, and it would take more than a foot of rain to pull Maine out of the drought it has been in for the second straight summer.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover Low Vision group will be meeting at the Central Hall Commons, 152 East Main Street, from 10-11:30 a.

By David Marino Jr.

DEXTER — The SAD 46 Board of Directors authorized Superintendent Kevin Jordan to enter into an agreement with Group Mission Trips — a non-profit, interdenominational Christian volunteer home-repair group — to host a summer workcamp again next summer.

By David Marino Jr.

By Lia Russell Piscataquis, Penobscot and Waldo counties have had the highest rates of new coronavirus cases in recent weeks as the highly contagious delta variant has taken hold and the counties’ lower-than-average vaccination rates have persisted.

By Lynne Fort, Bangor Daily News Staff With temperatures set to climb into the 90s today and much of the state under a heat advisory, many Mainers will be trying to stay cool.

Recent studies have shown that time spent in nature sparks and improves creativity, along with its other many benefits.

Many of the events will likely not be happening as listed below due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — When Dover-Foxcroft residents head to the polls in November, they will be voting on articles concerning the creation of ATV routes and the permitting of certain retail marijuna facilities.

The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District was approached by the executive director of the Maine TREE Foundation, Jonathan LaBonte, to take part in their annual Teacher Tour.

By Kim Brawn In the before times, uncertainty seemed at arm’s length.

MILO — The Three Rivers Kiwanis has held an auction every year for many years yet things have changed for all of us.

PORTLAND & ELLSWORTH – The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Land Protection grant program seeks proposals from organizations and projects in Maine dedicated to helping Maine people access and connect to the outdoors.

DEXTER — The Foxcroft Academy Alumni Jazz Band will play at 6 p.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Once upon a time, in a land not very far away, there was a man who lived near an enchanted forest.