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Department of Education to release statewide survey to inform framework for returning to classroom instruction

The Maine Department of Education continues to work with educators and health experts from across the state to develop health markers and corresponding plans to ensure the safe return to classroom instruction.

Northern Light Health board elects new chair, vice chair

BREWER — Kathy Corey has been elected as the next chair of the Northern Light Health Board of Directors.

ATV registrations now required for 2020-21

ATV owners must now register or renew registrations for 2020-21.

Maine Warden Service increasing boating patrols this holiday weekend for operation drywater

This holiday weekend, the Maine Warden Service will be active patrolling Maine waterways, keeping Maine boaters safe and enforcing Maine’s boating laws in order to raise awareness about operating under the influence, removing boaters who are operating impaired and ensuring that boats are registered and boaters are wearing life jackets.

Most waste meant for shuttered Hampden plant will temporarily go to Orrington incinerator

The 115 towns that have been sending their trash to landfills over the past month since the closure of a new waste processing plant in Hampden will instead temporarily send three-quarters of their trash to the incinerator that accepted the towns’ waste until 2018.

Benefactor to cover $145K purchase cost for sheriff’s building

MILO — When county residents head to the polls on Tuesday, July 14 they will be voting on a pair of state bond questions, political party primaries when applicable and a question concerning a bond to purchase the former Key Bank building in downtown Guilford to be the new home of the sheriff’s office patrol and investigation divisions.

Takeoff and landing competition a boost for pilots and a small airfield in Dover-Foxcroft

Saturday’s fly-in at the Charles A Chase Jr.

2020 Foxcroft Academy senior and post-graduate scholarships and awards

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The following were presented during the 2020 Foxcroft Academy commencement on June 27: Anna Shaw Buck Prize for Spoken French: Vu Trong Nhan Pham Anna Shaw Buck Prize for Written French: Clark LaChance Bruce & Kristen Gurall Scholarships: Enrico Ayala, MacKenzie Pearl, Katherine Ames C.

$11.97M RSU 68 budget set for July 14 referendum

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A proposed $11,970,877 RSU 68 budget for the 2020-21 academic year was approved at the annual district budget meeting on June 23 at the SeDoMoCha School.

Dover-Foxcroft seeking grant to help mitigate COVID-19 spread

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has created unexpected costs for Maine communities and businesses.

Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis seeks donations for online auction

DOVER-FOXCROFT — This summer the Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis annual auction will take place online in July at the annual Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis Auction Facebook page.

Alumnus to emerge from quarantine to give Foxcroft commencement address

Mark Stitham, M.

Center Theatre and ice arena create makeshift Dover-Foxcroft drive-in

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Two Dover-Foxcroft nonprofits that have been closed since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic — the Center Theatre and Piscataquis County Ice Arena — are bringing drive-in movies to the Piscataquis County seat.

Department of Corrections announces easing of restrictions

The Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC) announced it will begin to ease certain restrictions within correctional facilities. The decision to ease restrictions, such as those related to visitation, community restitution, work release and transfers, have been made in close consultation with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC). Many of the restrictions scheduled to be lifted in the coming weeks have been in place since early March.

Northern Light Health sets plan toward building a strong future for social and medical justice

Recently Northern Light Health leadership announced their systemwide plan to eliminate racism and other forms of discrimination and promote a strong future for social and medical justice.

Maine clerks, MMA team up to recruit election workers

Everyone knows you cannot run elections in Maine without election workers. Yet, in the midst of a public health emergency, as well as during “normal” times, finding people to staff election polls and process absentee ballots is not easy.

Coronavirus cases are in the single digits in 12 counties, but the risk is still there

Twelve of Maine’s 16 counties are now reporting fewer than 10 active cases of the virus, including three -- Piscataquis, Aroostook and Washington counties -- with zero. The prevalence of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, also seems to finally be dropping in more heavily populated southern Maine counties even as the state has ramped up testing in recent weeks.

Shaffer announces candidacy for county commissioner

Charles Shaffer of Sebec is announcing his candidacy for Piscataquis County commissioner, District 2, representing Sebec, Atkinson, Dover-Foxcroft, Medford and Orneville. A graduate of Quinnipiac University School of Law, he has a long history of advocacy and service to people with intellectual disabilities as well individuals dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues. Shaffer is currently a community case manager in Bangor.

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