By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Jeff Coffin, a saxophone player who grew up in Dexter, became the first Mainer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Dave Matthews Band.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff After a stretch of weeks that have shed light on the financial turmoil at Northern Light Health and culminated in staffing turnover in its highest ranks, the Bangor Daily News sat down with the system’s chief financial officer, James Rohrbaugh, Oct.

GREENVILLE — In July the Greenville Planning Board heard a proposal concerning nearly 60 acres of land in Greenville Junction off North Green Street, on the peninsula going into Moosehead Lake on the eastern shore of the West Cove, to be developed into 15 lots of varying sizes making up what is now known as the Timberline Subdivision.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis Community Democrats continue to help those struggling with food insecurity.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff A second agency is considering lowering its credit rating for Northern Light Health over its growing financial troubles.

BANGOR — The Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has granted over $740,000 in funding to support Penquis’ Substance Affected Youth Program for the next three years.

GREENVILLE — With costly repairs needed to the surface underneath the ice and the warming shack needing to be replaced, the Greenville municipal skating rink will be closed for the upcoming season.

GUILFORD – A team of Valley Granger members led by Walter Boomsma is delivering nearly 250 dictionaries to local area schools during the next several weeks.

GUILFORD — Friends of Community Fitness had a record year for the fourth annual Cycl-a-thon on Saturday, Oct.

MILO — On Tuesday, Oct.

Imagine someone has taken a picture of your child without them knowing and posted it online.

Piscataquis Observer staff picked up a half dozen awards among the state’s smaller weekly publications division from the Maine Press Association in the 2024 MPA Better Newspaper Contest, announced on Oct.

By Lindsay Putnam, Bangor Daily News Staff The Bangor Daily News won the top honor of Maine’s best daily newspaper and reporter Sawyer Loftus was named the state’s journalist of the year at the Maine Press Association’s annual conference Saturday, Oct.

By Charles Eichacker, Bangor Daily News Staff A leadership shakeup that saw three high-level executives leave their jobs at Northern Light Health last week is the latest example of how the hospital system is struggling to recover from the downward financial spiral it’s been in for the last few years.

Camden National Bank is proud to announce a significant donation of school supplies collected by employees and customers from all 57 banking centers to Ruth’s Reusable Resources, a local nonprofit dedicated to bridging the gap between business and education by transferring unwanted supplies to children and their teachers.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff All housekeeping and cafeteria positions at Northern Light Health are being outsourced to a third-party company, employees learned Tuesday.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff A vice president of Northern Light Health is the latest executive to leave the health care system amid a series of recent leadership changes.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Another Northern Light Health hospital president resigned on Oct.