Photo courtesy of Senate Republican Office EDUCATOR HONOR — On June 6 Sen.

“Behind the rock walls in Sebec we have been working on an amazing project,” says Joi Stevens of Rockwall Doodles.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County has never had a logo of its own, instead various emblems and icons have been used over the years.

BROWNVILLE — Brownville Elementary’s 2023 Career Day was a huge success.

Photos courtesy of Three Rivers Kiwanis DAY OF FISHING — On May 16 Three Rivers Kiwanis hosted “Hooked on Fishing, Not Drugs” for Brownville Elementary School fourth-graders.

Credit unions across the state are coming together to support the fourth annual $100,000 Ending Hunger Challenge.

MILO — Those who served throughout the nation’s history, in times of war and times of peace alike, are recognized at the Veterans Memorial at Evergreen Cemetery in Milo which includes monuments to past wars, the branches of the military, and stones engraved with names of local veterans.

Ten members of the Piscataquis Region Retired Educators Association met on May 23 at the Thompson Free Library in Dover-Foxcroft.

Grade eight, high honors: Shyanna Gauvin, Ashley Ladd, Anna Smith, and Darelyn Young; honors: Connor Badger, Whitneigh Bubar, Thomas Eddy, Krista Graves, Lucas Gruber, Peyton Herbest, Christopher McGuinness, Mackenzie Michaud, Jessa Plummer, Joshua Ray, Logan Small, and Nichollas Small.

BROWNVILLE — The Brownville-Brownville Junction Historical Society held its 2023 annual meeting on May 16 at the Parish House Museum.

MILO — This academic year nearly 50 Milo Elementary and Brownville Elementary students have gotten together after school for the BearCats program, an amalgamation of the school’s Bears and Bobcats mascots.

Grade 12, high honors: Victoria Boislard, Jessica Broussard, Rachel Broussard, Syreniti Grant, Evan Horne, Ida-Grace Lundin, and William Sanborn; honors: Imaan Ali, Brooke Bolstridge, Aidan Brown, Abigail Conlogue, Jessica Morton, Mickayla Pierce, Mason Searles, Frederick Shaw, Aileen Strout, Macie Veino, and Megan Whitten.

AUGUSTA — Sixteen Maine teachers were announced as 2023 County Teachers of the Year at a ceremony in the Hall of Flags at the Maine State Capitol during Teacher Appreciation Week  on May 11.

A program that launched in October 2021 has mostly reversed a major Maine hospital system’s shortage of emergency medical technicians after staffing dropped 30 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

EAST SANGERVILLE — A large crowd was in attendance for the annual Spring Brunch Sunday hosted by the Piscataquis County Democrats on May 7.

LAGRANGE — After nearly 14 years on the job as SAD 41 superintendent, Michael Wright will be retiring at the end of the current academic year.

After three years Three Rivers Kiwanis Foundation of Milo/Brownville will finally hold its annual canoe race on Saturday, May 13, starting at the Sebec Village Reading Room and ending at Veterans Park in Milo.

Northern Light Health hospitals around the state are offering $3,000 to $15,000 sign-on bonuses to registered nurses in an effort to address Maine’s health care worker shortage.