The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District will be hosting organic orchard specialist CJ Walke of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and College of the Atlantic for an evening webinar: Planning a Backyard Orchard.

By David Marino Jr.

By Charles Eichacker, Maine Public The Hampden waste facility that shut down last spring after just six months could soon reopen under the management of a Pennsylvania company that converts trash to electricity.

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

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff The first tangible sign of an eventual widening project at one of the region’s more troublesome traffic intersections came into view this week with the demolition of the former Dead River Co.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A Knox County developer and Louisiana nonprofit are proposing to build a year-round resort with new ski lifts, a hotel, marina, condominiums and more at the site of a longtime ski area overlooking Moosehead Lake that has fallen into disrepair.

The American Red Cross is looking for Disaster Action Team (DAT) volunteers.

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By Josh Keefe, Bangor Daily News Staff The Trail to Tomorrow is a loop located on the outskirts of Grand Lake Stream, a plantation in Washington County that sits a 45-minute drive west of Calais.

BANGOR — In connection with its yearly Law Day Contest, the Penobscot County Bar Association is giving away two $500 prizes and two $250 prizes to the high school students within the county who submit the best essays and artwork reflecting on the state of the rule of law in America in 2021.

By Josh Keefe, Bangor Daily News Staff Denis Gallaudet is a retired banker, so he knows the value of things.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff The increased use of two popular Piscataquis County locations helped Maine break the record for visits at its state parks in 2020.

By Beth Ranagan The statewide and regional statistics concerning teen suicide rates within the last 12 months are alarming.

By Eesha Pendharkar, Bangor Daily News Staff The state is recommending as it did two weeks ago that schools in four Maine counties not offer full-time, in-person instruction as they experience higher rates of new virus cases than the rest of the state.

Steve Rowe, president and CEO of the Maine Community Foundation, will retire this summer.

BANGOR — Community Health Accreditation Partner, Inc.

GUILFORD — A proposed regional high school, offering a number of vocational programs and college courses in addition to core subjects, involving many of the area school districts was given new life last fall.

By Bob Duchesne First, a private message to the owners of a home on Guilford Center Road in Guilford: What on earth do you have in those bird feeders? I counted at least 60 American goldfinches and 30 common redpolls mobbing the feeders on the edge of your driveway last weekend.