By Nick Sambides Jr.

GREENVILLE — The 12th annual Chocolate Festival in the Moosehead Lake region just happens to land on one of the biggest chocolate days of the year, Valentine’s Day.

GREENVILLE — The ninth annual Moosehead Lake Togue Derby with Ricky Craven is not over but instead has come to a dramatic pause.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC/Miosac Club is conducting its 2016 Sebec Lake Ice Out Contest.

Observer file photo/Jeannette Hughes GONE ICE FISHING — Bangor residents Mike Lawson and Kelly Shorette registered their catch in 2014 at the Knights Landing weigh station in Brownville.

AUGUSTA — The Maine Warden Service is reminding anglers, snowmobilers and others who like to recreate on Maine’s lakes and ponds in the winter that ice conditions on many waterways throughout the state right now may not be safe to hold themselves or heavy equipment and vehicles.

  SHIRLEY — All of our Shirley Bog Trail Busters trails are in good shape despite the little snow.

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Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom OFF AND RUNNING — The end of Railroad Avenue in Brownville Jct.

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BROWNVILLE JCT — Results from the seventh annual Maine Highlands Sled Dog Club and the town of Brownville’s Brownville-KI and Beyond Sled Dog Race, held on Jan.

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WINTER RECREATION GUIDE BROWNVILLE JCT — On Saturday, Jan.

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Photo courtesy of Maine Highland FCU Sandy Smart, left, of the Penquis Animal Welfare Sanctuary (PAWS) received a donation from Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union-Brownville employee Amanda Heath.