DOVER-FOXCROFT — Private ponds that are stocked with trout provide multiple benefits for landowners and their families.

Join Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife fisheries and wildlife biologists for the following live presentations on the MDIFW YouTube page.

BANGOR — With 2020 certain to be remembered for COVID-19 and social unrest, Bangor Savings Bank focused its charitable giving in precisely those areas and finished its fiscal year with nearly $1.

DEXTER — All students at the Ridge View Community School and Dexter Regional High School will be learning remotely for the rest of the week after five people associated with SAD 46 have tested positive for COVID-19.

By Charles Eichacker, Maine Public The beaver has been one of the nation’s great ecological comeback stories.

HALLOWELL – NAMI Maine, a statewide nonprofit organization providing education, support and advocacy for people living with mental illness and their families, is seeking volunteers interested in being trained as certified NAMI Family-to-Family teachers.

By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff For some people, a pond is not fully a pond unless it has fish in it.

Even though it was a difficult year for fundraising in 2020, Maine Highlands Federal Credit  was able to raise over $17,000 for the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger.

DEXTER — With a bit of additional language likely to be added to the document, the Dexter Town Council opted to table a decision on a proposed amendment to the shoreland zoning ordinance during an April 8 meeting.

DEXTER — When SAD 46 grades 6-12 students at the Ridge View Community School and Dexter Regional High School return from April vacation on Monday, April 26, they will attend classes in-person five days a week instead of the two cohorts on different days.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff For nearly two decades, commercial wind farms have been touted in Maine as a way to generate electricity without pollution, and as a way rural locales in Maine can generate revenue for themselves by hosting turbines worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

BANGOR/DOVER-FOXCROFT — Partners for Peace will host their 2021 annual meeting from 3:30 to 4:30 p.

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By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine is seeing a record of at least 88,000 new first doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week as the supply to retail pharmacies through a federal program jumped nearly 50 percent with the addition of independent pharmacies.

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff This story will be updated.

Eastern Maine Development Corporation’s Maine PTAC Program Director Ken Bloch received national recognition from the Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers.

By Sam Schipani, Bangor Daily News Staff Raccoons can wreak havoc on your yard and house if they settle in.