Michael and Wendy have joined the Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce and look forward to building strong relationships with surrounding chamber business members. The Chamber will host a member-only open house at the Guilford Bed and Breakfast on Friday, May 10 from 6-8 p.m. Guests can expect light refreshments, homemade treats and door prizes. Please call 564-7533 to RSVP.

All are encouraged to gather for a presentation on domestic violence that will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall, located on 533 North Dexter Road, on Tuesday, May 7, from 6:30-8 p.m. The event will be co-hosted by Our Lady of the Snows Parish in Dexter, St. Agnes Parish in Pittsfield and Catholic Charities Maine.

Upcoming events around the region.

Dexter Regional High School is proud to announce that the following students have been selected by the faculty as "Students of the Month" for March -- grade 9: Abey Givens; grade 10: Grace Wallace; grade 11: Alaina Spizuoco; and grade 12: Aino Rudloff-Eastman.

Dexter Regional High School is proud to announce that the following students have been selected by the faculty as "Students of the Month" for February -- grade 9: Molly Bennett; grade 10: Michael Gadwah; grade 11: Timothy Pike; and grade 12: Wuyu Du.

All 10 items passed as written during the 2019 annual town meeting on the morning of April 27 in the gymnasium at the Morton Avenue Municipal Building. The $5,470,475 municipal budget figure for the 2019-20 fiscal year approved across the financial articles will now go to referendum on Tuesday, June 11 for a validation vote

Beginning on Wednesday, May 1 at 11 a.m. in the Union Church Fellowship Hall we will hold our first hour-long study. The program is designed so that a new character will be studied each week, so if you need to miss a study along the way you will not be left behind.

Clip out this column and pin it to the refrigerator. For online readers, pin your computer to the refrigerator. Eleven birding highlights are about to happen.

Abbot resident Walter Boomsma of the Valley Grange, who also serves as communications director for the Maine State Grange, will appear on a one-hour program on Maine Public Radio Friday, May 3 starting at 1 p.m. The program is “Maine Calling” and will feature Boomsma and Past Master of the Maine State Grange Vicki Huff as studio guests discussing “The Role of the Grange in Maine.”

Baxter State Park is pleased to announce that Hunter Law, who is a graduate of Foxcroft Academy, has been selected as this year's Visiting Artist. Law's submission was selected from an extremely competitive field of very talented artists.

“Where you look affects how you feel,” discovered Dr. David Grand, PhD. in 2003 when he developed his psychotherapeutic technique called Brainspotting. It is used to help a client access unprocessed trauma by using eye gaze and subcortical brain activity to locate the spot deep within the subcortex where emotional pain is experienced.

The impaired driving simulation event “Every 15 Minutes” comes to the Penquis Valley School on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7-8. Every 15 Minutes is a two-day program which demonstrates to high school students the impact drinking and driving (as well as distracted driving) has on friends, family and their community.

Just two days after marijuana enthusiasts celebrated their favorite vice on 4/20, the Maine Office of Marijuana Policy posted draft rules for the state’s coming regulated cannabis market.

The Wassabec Genealogical Society will meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 28 in the Piscataquis Room at Mayo Regional Hospital. Speaker will be Carol McCoy, past president of the Maine Genealogical Society, and she will discuss finding a Mayflower ancestor.

A large cast of local kids will take the stage on Friday, May 3 at 7 p.m. for the opening night of “Seussical, Jr.” at the Center Theatre. The musical, based on the works of Dr. Seuss, will also be performed on Saturday the 4th at 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday the 5th at 2 p.m., Friday the 10th at 7 p.m., Saturday the 11th at 2 p.m. and Sunday the 12th at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 12 is also Mother's Day and the Slightly Off-Center Players will be hosting a Seussical Mother's Day Tea Party at 10 a.m.

Piscataquis County experienced the biggest gain in unit sales, up 30 percent to 56. But the median sale price dropped 10 percent to $106,000.

Samantha Siemerling of Dover-Foxcroft was presented with the first-place prize in the high school division of the Secretary of State’s 2018 Maine Native American History and Culture Essay Contest by Sen. Paul Davis, R-Sangerville at the Maine State Museum in Augusta on April 17.

The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Land Conservation Fund has awarded $93,000 in grants to 14 organizations to support conservation projects across Maine.