As Maine chief forest ranger Bill Hamilton spent a few minutes discussing campfire safety recently, much of the state baked on yet another 80-degree day, and Bangor-area lawns turned brown after weeks of little rain.

While Maine colleges and universities plan to test many students and staff as they reopen their campuses this fall, the same scale of testing is unlikely in the state’s public schools.

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If you love wildlife and would like to see more of it around your home, you’re in luck.

To some, it may have seemed like a win-win situation when a group of more than 100 Maine communities announced early this month that it was planning to send a majority of its household trash to a familiar place: an Orrington facility that burns waste to generate electricity.

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MILO — The budget approval process is a bit different this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but residents of Brownville, LaGrange and Milo will still head to their respective polling place and/or vote absentee on Thursday, Aug.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The hilly and mountainous geography of Piscataquis County provides much of the region’s natural beauty, but also creates communications issues for area fire and police departments and emergency medical personnel.

Pine Tree Hospice wants to “plant” bright pinwheel flowers at your house, or the house of someone you know.

Thanks to its relatively low levels of COVID-19 cases, Maine is in a better position than other states to implement safety protocols and send students physically back to schools this fall, public health officials have said.

As school districts across Maine develop and implement COVID safety plans, they will receive millions of dollars in financial aid from the state through the federal coronavirus relief package.

The owners of the recently shuttered Hampden waste plant are blaming many of its financial problems on a contractor that staffed and ran the facility, arguing in court documents that the contractor hired and then poorly supervised unqualified workers at the plant.

Thanks to  to the generosity of the Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union, Piscataquis County officials will not need to take out a $145,000 bond for the purchase of the former Key Bank building at 2 Hudson Avenue in downtown Guilford to become the new home of the patrol and investigation divisions of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office.

The committee charged with recommending urgent measures to stabilize and support Maine’s economy amid the coronavirus pandemic recommended the state provide $1.

The state is now opening 18 new drive-up coronavirus testing sites in places as far abreast as South Portland and Presque Isle as part of a previously announced expansion to the state’s overall ability to detect the disease.

DOVER-FOXCROFT Shall the town appropriate revenues anticipated  in the amount of $2,133,808 and  appropriate additional funds including  funds from surplus in the amount of $260,000,  for a total amount of $2,393,808  to be used to reduce amounts  to be raised from the property tax commitment  to fund appropriations in subsequent articles,  and; authorize the board of selectmen  to appropriate an additional amount  from surplus to reduce the property tax commitment? Yes No 791 167   Shall the town raise and appropriate  the sum of $4,651,635, for town operations?  (Revenue and surplus to be used  to reduce the amount to be raised  to fund this article is $2,279,508,  net amount to be raised is $2,372,127) Yes No 871 195   Shall the town raise and appropriate the sum  of $205,500 to capital reserve to fund capital equipment?  (Revenue and surplus to be used to reduce the amount  to be raised to fund this article is $18,600, net amount  to be raised is $186,900);  and authorize the board of selectmen to expend funds) Yes No 813 214   Shall the town raise and appropriate the sum  of $72,500 to capital reserve to fund  capital improvements to town buildings and facilities?  (Revenue to be used to reduce the amount to be raised to fund  this article is $5,700, net amount to be raised is $66,800);  and authorize the board of selectmen to expend funds) Yes No 766 219   Shall the town appropriate all money received  from the the state (anticipated in the amount of $90,000)  for capital improvements and maintenance of town roads  and bridges and raise and appropriate $310,000  for capital improvements and maintenance for town roads?  Total expenditure = $400,000.

An incumbent Republican state senator barely held off a challenge from an incendiary lawmaker in one of three Tuesday legislative primaries won by candidates backed by Senate Republicans over those preferred by former Gov.

Maine voters on Tuesday, July 14  overwhelmingly backed $120 million in bonds for transportation and broadband systems that have been stressed by the coronavirus pandemic.