The Women’s Ride will take place on Saturday, June 5, in 20 different cities and towns across Maine for a total of 24 individual rides, the Bicycle Coalition of Maine announced.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A proposed 2021-22 RSU 68 budget totaling $11,999,662 was approved during the annual district budget meeting on May 25 at the SeDoMoCha School.

Note: Bangor Daily News archives dating back to 1911 are now available at newspapers.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A validation question on the proposed 2021-22 RSU 68 budget will be on the Tuesday, June 8, ballot along with the Dover-Foxcroft referendum items.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society is back after a very strange 2020.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The SeDoMoCha School has been added to the CDC outbreak list, but school operations will continue as before.

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GUILFORD — Members of the Valley Grange #144 opted for an atypical choice as the organization’s Community Citizen Award while looking back on a year-plus in the coronavirus pandemic.

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DOVER-FOXCROFT — On May 22, at the Maine Education Association Representative Assembly, the Center Theatre was given a Golden Apple Award.

By Kim Brawn, Thompson Free Library Our goal this June at the Thompson Free Library in Dover-Foxcroft is to eliminate the words “I’m bored” from your vocabulary.

BREWER — Northern Light Health announced that it will increase its minimum starting rate to $15 an hour across the organization.

To encourage more people to grow their own vegetables, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Piscataquis County Extension Executive Committee adopted the One Tomato project in 2014.

Grade eight, high honors: Heidi Clawson, Emily Greenlaw, Eli Lane, Brianna Lawrence, Korbyn McCormick, Jack Murray, Kael Niland, Chelsea O’Bar, Cameron Pratt and Elizabeth Richards; honors: Shem Atwater, Emma Bither, Brooklynn Black, Asa Booker, Leora Brochu, Shayli Cirulli, Margarette Clarke, Allison Conner, Carter Coy, Ashton Day, James Estes, Evalyn Fisk, Jackson Goodine, Grace Greene, Scott Greene, Alexis Heretakis, Hailey Holler, Madyson Kimball, Calvin Landry, Serenity McCabe, Kierstyn Nuite, Aspen Perry, Jason Rhoda, Lea Schnetzer, Flynn Schriver, Lochlainn Schriver, Conner Watt and Jaxson Zimmerman.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Extension will offer a home gardening webinar about optimizing compost and manure use in the garden from 6–7:15 p.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Democrats continued their efforts to address hunger in local communities with the monthly collection of cereal and other staples at their headquarters on North Street in Dover-Foxcroft on Saturday, May 22.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Residents had the opportunity to hear directly from the municipal candidates in Dover-Foxcroft about three weeks prior to the June 8 election during a Candidate Night sponsored by the Piscataquis Chapter of the League of Women Voters at the Center Theatre on May 17.

PORTLAND — The Diocese of Portland has announced major updates to the pandemic protocols currently in place at all 141 Catholic churches in Maine.