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.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Last month the Dover-Foxcroft Board of Selectmen approved a dangerous building order for a home and attached barn at 72 Lincoln Street to address long-standing problems with the property.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — After a year of downtime, the Dover-Foxcroft Age-friendly Committee has reconvened.

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.

House District Rep.

Groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for May 3 DOVER-FOXCROFT — Jim Robinson, a 1959 Foxcroft Academy graduate and owner of A.

Sackett and Brake Survey Inc.

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

AUGUSTA — Twenty one Maine community college students have been named to the All-Maine Academic Team in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement, leadership and service.

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.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – Charley Bradford, a graduate of Thomas College, has begun to see adults who are eligible to receive community integration (adult case management) services at Community Health and Counseling Services.

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.

 Grade 6-8 students to attend four days in-person after April vacation DOVER-FOXCROFT — RSU 68 officials are looking at a proposed 2021-22 budget totaling $12,021,863.

PITTSFIELD — In April of 2020 Puritan Medical Products, one of two major manufacturers of COVID-19 testing swabs, reached out to Cianbro in desperate need of expanding from their Guilford facility to meet the ever-growing demand for testing swabs.

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, businesses across the region have been navigating new methods of operation.

By David Marino Jr.