For Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, purple ribbons were placed at town welcome signs, including Dover-Foxcroft’s on Route 15, throughout Piscataquis and Penobscot counties.

The Hibbard Skilled Nursing Center in Dover-Foxcroft invited residents, families and staff members to bring in their children to trick or treat.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis Public Health Council, a local Healthy Maine Partnership (HMP) in partnership with Mayo Regional Hospital and Maine’s Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, is providing the following free trainings:     Training for Intervention Procedures (TIPS) on Wednesday, Nov.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The first snowflake of the season may have just fallen, but the Kiwanis Club of Dover-Foxcroft is already beginning its planning for this year’s Christmas Project.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The community is invited to the annual Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours and Harvest Trunk Show event on Nov.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Are you certified to work near water bodies? As of July 1, 2013, work within 250 feet of any water body (the shoreland zone) requires a certified contractor on site.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Wassebec Genealogical Society will meet Nov.

SeDoMoCha Middle School eighth-graders got to see how chemists carve their pumpkins as Assistant Principal Matthew Lokken showed the grade 8 science classes a chemical reaction on Oct.

The inaugural Dover-Foxcroft Fall BOO-Nanza began on the late afternoon on Halloween with a kids’ costume parade.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — With the town of Dover-Foxcroft’s cable TV franchise agreement with Time Warner set to expire next year, town officials have begun the process to have a new arrangement in place.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — A hot dog fundraiser held at Will’s Shop ’n Save on Saturday, Oct.

Contributed photo The Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis Club recently presented a check for $1,000 to the Guilford Partnership Food Pantry.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — In honor of Halloween, the Center Theatre is dubbing Saturday, Nov.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Commissioners had a mostly routine agenda to deal with last week, with the exception of hiring an interim county manager at the end of their meeting.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Earlier in the month SeDoMoCha Elementary School grade 3 teacher Jessica Dunton was honored by the Association of Computer Technology Educators of Maine (ACTEM) as the organization’s 2014 Maine Technology Educator of the Year.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Democrats and Republicans disagree on many points going into the home stretch of the 2014 campaign, but five participants at a Dover-Foxcroft forum on Oct.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Sunday, Nov.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The first meeting of the Dover-Foxcroft Comprehensive Plan Committee is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct.