By Stuart Hedstrom Staff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — Earlier this year the Maine Shared Health Needs Assessment and Planning Process (SHNAPP) spent several months analyzing data, including an online stakeholder survey, to devise a 2015 Shared Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) for Piscataquis County.

Drop-in support group lets participants know they are not alone   By Stuart Hedstrom Staff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — Every Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 2:30 p.

  DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC/Miosac Club met Nov.

     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre Board of Directors has announced the hiring of Patrick Myers as the theatre’s executive director.

First part of $30,000 grant to The Maine Highlands Senior Center DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Oct.

By Dawn GagnonBDN Staff DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — A Millinocket man who was arrested in May in connection with the attempted drowning of a woman in Greenville was sentenced to eight years in jail, with all but 4½ years suspended, during a hearing Monday at the Piscataquis County Courthouse.

By Dawn Gagnon BDN Staff DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The state fire marshal’s office has charged two teenagers from Dover-Foxcroft with arson after a building near the town’s water tower was set ablaze over the weekend, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Monday.

By Stuart Hedstrom Staff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — Among its many programs, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension offers resources for those involved in or considering getting started in agriculture.

By Stuart Hedstrom Staff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — Last month the Piscataquis County Commissioners gave their approval to the creation of an administrative assistant to the Piscataquis County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director.

         DOVER-FOXCROFT — During art this year with teacher Bobbi Tardif, students are making the SeDoMoCha School a place of collaboration and discovery.

     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Vice President Anne Cress, in the absence of President Vicki Moschella, called the Oct.

        Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom A large contingent of costumed marchers proceeded from the courthouse parking lot down East Main Street to the Dover-Foxcroft Congregational church parking lot on Oct.

     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Last year a group of other nursing students at the University of Maine conducted a community assessment on the Dover-Foxcroft community and determined that drug abuse is a major health concern for this population.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Charlotte White Center’s art program, under the direction of Christine Rice, meets twice weekly — once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

by Piscataquis County grand jury   By Nok Noi Ricker Special to the Observer DOVER FOXCROFT — Murder suspect Robert Burton, the Abbot man who earlier this year led police on the longest active manhunt in Maine history, was indicted Oct.

By Stuart Hedstrom Staff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — In mid-October residents of the region had the opportunity to tell their concerns directly to and get answers from Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew during a public meeting at the Penquis Higher Education Center.

   Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom Students in Mary Kate Povak’s grade 7 science classes at SeDoMoCha Middle School in Dover-Foxcroft were tasked with engineering projects to create inexpensive, easy to make water filters.

By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — Via a June 2014 town meeting vote, residents approved an ordinance concerning private distribution corridors including paved highways, pipelines and high tension transmission lines.