ELLSWORTH & PORTLAND – In its second year of grantmaking, the Maine Community Foundation’s Start Up/Scale Up Grant Program is providing $225,000 to 11 Maine nonprofit organizations that are helping new ventures start and grow through shared workspaces and incubator and accelerator programs.

Healthy Living for ME has opened the response period for its 2021 Community Health Needs Assessment and is encouraging Mainers to participate.

The Maine Timber Research and Environmental Education Foundation is proud to announce that Robbins Lumber of Searsmont and Pleasant River Lumber of Dover-Foxcroft, two Maine-based family-owned companies, are the lead underwriters for 2021 Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours.

MILO — The shift to outdoor learning during the pandemic has offered schools the opportunity to reimagine their classrooms and the lessons they teach.

AUGUSTA – The Maine Legislature unanimously approved a bill sponsored by Rep.

SANGERVILLE — The East Sangerville Grange is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Don Hall Scholarship.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A week after voters in the four RSU 68 communities approved a near $12 million budget for the 2021-22 academic year via a combined 349-89 vote, the school board formally set the assessments for Charleston, Dover-Foxcroft, Monson and Sebec during a June 15 meeting at the SeDoMoCha School.

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By Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff LITTLETON — The Littleton Pit Stop, a small gas station and diner located along Route 1, is the sole convenience store and restaurant in this small Aroostook County town.

Contributed photo TRIVIA WINNER — Joan Peters of Dexter won the trivia contest and flowers at the Dexter Age-Friendly Tea Talks on June 10.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Mainers definitely have one up on residents of states like Colorado, Wyoming or Kansas.

By David Marino Jr.

Composite photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High School STUDENTS OF THE YEAR — Four pupils have been named Students of the Year at Dexter Regional High School.

A group of University of Maine researchers led by faculty in the School of Biology and Ecology released a research report about browntail moth in 2020 while investigating the spread of the pest from coastal communities to nearly all of Maine’s 16 counties.

HALLOWELL – NAMI Maine, a statewide nonprofit organization providing education, support and advocacy for people living with mental illness and their families announces that registration is now open for NAMI Basics, an online course for parents of children and teens.

GUILFORD — Students at Piscataquis Community Elementary School captured their thoughts and feelings from the coronavirus pandemic in firsthand accounts, poetry, stories, art and more.

DEXTER — For the first time in its 125-year history, a cat spay and neuter clinic was hosted by the Abbott Memorial Library.