It is with great pleasure that the Baxter State Park Authority announces the appointment of its new Baxter State park naturalist Marc Edwards. Edwards is currently the park’s interpretive specialist.

The Three Rivers Kiwanis will hold its first annual Cruise-In from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m on Saturday, Sept. 22 at Three Rivers Kiwanis Headquarters (15 Harris Pond Road in the business park).

On Sept. 14-16 Dexter will once again host the Harold J. Crosby Community Band Camp at the Ridge View Community School on the Fern Road. This three-day band camp brings in musicians from throughout the country to play the music of Maine composers and arrangers to include Dexter’s own Harold J. Crosby, a contemporary of John Phillip Sousa.

The Spotted Cat Winery is a wonderfully discoverable gem in the Greenville area; it is a small home-based farm winery specializing in natural and handcrafted wines, according to their brochure. This place is named for their cat, Aphrodite, who presides regally over her two diligent humans who grow the fruits and tend the tanks to create the varieties of small-batch wines they produce every year.

This fall Mayo Regional Hospital, in collaboration with the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system, based in Lebanon, New Hampshire, will begin offering TeleEmergency services to its patients, keeping quality health services close to home and increasing access to highly specialized care.

The Good Shepherd Food Truck came to Milo Aug. 29, arriving at the Three Rivers Kiwanis Headquarters parking lot to hand out food. Members of Three Rivers Kiwanis, Bobby and Tanya Ellison, Marie Witham and Kurt Cattan, were on hand to help.

Guilford resident Sarah Gray recently began her freshman year at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone.

The Center Theatre will be hosting the grand finale of its Central Maine Talent Search program at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15. The fourth event in the series will bring the two winners from each of the previous three events together to compete for $500 and other prizes.

Stakeholders from across the county will be given an opportunity on Tuesday, Sept. 18 to shape priorities for community health at a special forum aimed at providing input to the region’s healthcare organizations.

The following births were recorded recently at Mayo Regional Hospital

The Three Rivers Kiwanis annual blueberry pancake breakfast will be served from 7-10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15 at Kiwanis Headquarters (in the business park) at 15 Harris Pond Road. All proceeds from this event will benefit the Three Rivers Kiwanis Foundation to allow the organization to run all charity programs throughout the year.

Upcoming events around the region.

Piscataquis County winners of the 2018 Spirit of America Foundation Tribute for outstanding community service will be honored at a ceremony on Friday, Sept. 21 starting at 7 p.m. in the Valley Grange Hall at 172 Guilford Center Road.

Pilots from across the country and Canada are expected to attend the popular International Seaplane Fly-In from Sept. 6-9, which also draws some of the biggest crowds of the summer season to the Moosehead Lake region.

The alumni of Brownville Junction High School held their annual reunion on Aug. 25. For many years they have awarded scholarships to college students based on academic performance. This year they will provide a total of $19,000 in financial assistance to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of BJHS alumni members.

Members and guests of the Abbot Historical Society held the monthly meeting Aug. 28 at the Little Red School House in upper Abbot. The building has recently been purchased by Brian and Julie Hanscom and the new owners are in the process of repairing and restoring this old landmark.

Turn the page. As in, move on to new activities, make a fresh start or proceed to the next page in a book. September at the Thompson Free Library is filled with page-turning programs and books that are real page-turners.

Realizing our human connection to everything and everyone else in the world brings us to the point where we have the empathy needed for healing. This is a message from Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, in NAMI’s next Healing Trauma Summit video presentation called “Becoming a Healing Presence in the World” at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13 at The Commons at Central Hall.