AUGUSTA – The Maine Department of Education is pleased to recognize its nine student interns, working across a variety of Maine DOE offices and teams in the spring and summer.

PORTLAND – The John T.

By Elizabeth Walztoni, Bangor Daily News Staff A bill setting a state minimum wage for Maine farmworkers was signed into law on June 10.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High SchoolSTUDENTS OF THE YEAR — At Senior Assembly at Dexter Regional High School, Students of the Year were awarded.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A Garland woman has been arrested in the death of a 78-year-old in Hartland in April.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff DEXTER — Dexter residents voted on Tuesday to remove two members of its local school board.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — Maine pharmacies would no longer be allowed to sell tobacco products under a proposal that state lawmakers advanced Monday.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High School SEAL OF BILITERACY — Fannie Patel of Dexter has earned Dexter Regional High School’s very first Maine State Seal of Biliteracy for demonstrating proficiency in a language other than English.

Despite the hottest conditions of the year so far, area agencies took part in the 2025 Law Enforcement Torch Run to carry the Flame of Hope on June 5.

By Patty Wight, Maine Public Vaccination rates among school-aged children in Maine are above 97 percent, according to the latest annual report from the state Center for Disease Control.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High SchoolSTUDENTS OF THE MONTH — Dexter Regional High School is pleased to announce the May Students of the Month as selected by the faculty and staff for being exemplary students.

BANGOR – Penquis C.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Contract talks have stalled between Northern Light Health and Anthem.

DEXTER — A proposed 2025-26 SAD 46 budget totaling $16,653,368 was approved during the annual district meeting in the Alfond Gym at the Ridge View Community School on May 29.

DEXTER — Dexter Regional High School student Sunny Bache, a senior and captain in the criminal justice program at Tri-County Technical Center, was recently awarded the Maine State Troopers’ Women in Law Enforcement Scholarship by Cpl.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff DEXTER — Two people were hurt in an ATV crash in Dexter on Sunday night.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff A bill that will prohibit floating camps from Maine’s lakes and ponds got the nod May 28 by the Legislature’s Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.