DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy junior Jessica Simpson is organizing a dress donation/sale in order to offer inexpensive dresses to local shoppers and raise money for the Make a Wish Maine Foundation.

By Beth Ranagan     DOVER-FOXCROFT — On March 10 the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Piscataquis County will present Meg Callaway to speak about the Behavioral Health Home care model soon to be instituted at the Charlotte White Center in Dover-Foxcroft.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Do you have some spare time? Are you looking for a way to give back to your community?    Pine Tree Hospice will offer a series of volunteer trainings this spring.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Over the ensuing few weeks SeDoMoCha Middle School students will be taking part in a shared reading experience through the One Book, One Adventure program as they read “By A Maine River” by Thomas Mark Szelog and Lee Ann Szelog.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Maine Warden Service is investigating a fatal snowmobile crash at the Piscataquis County Fairground.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — When a person falls out of the sky toward the ground below in a bungee jump, various factors are taken into account to help provide for a thrill and to make the plunge as safe as possible.

WORKS OF HEART For Heart Month in February, 15 SeDoMoCha Elementary School third-graders had posters they made on display at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft to help promote heart health.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The first draft of the proposed budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year was presented by Town Manager Jack Clukey during a Feb.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Wesley McNair, Maine’s fourth Poet Laureate and author of  “The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry”, will speak at the next event in the James Brown Lecture Series on Tuesday, March 4 at the Thompson Free Library.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover Low Vision Group will meet at McDonald’s on Route 15 from 10 to 11:30 a.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Folks participating in the Jack Does That Hour Exchange and members of the community who would like to learn about the exchange are invited to a potluck gathering on the evening of Friday, Feb.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Winter weather has kept the GFWC/Miosac Club from meeting much this winter.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District would like to encourage people to enter the Maine Envirothon raffle for a chance to win one of three cash prizes.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Students from Foxcroft Academy and Piscataquis Community Secondary School are gearing up for an evening of one-act plays at the Center Theatre.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — While there are several events in the Dover-Foxcroft area geared to attract visitors in the summer and fall, there aren’t many organized local activities in the winter.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Commissioners breezed through their meeting last week for two good reasons: the agenda was relatively short and the furnace wasn’t working in the annex for a while.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — In December Gov.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department now has a smaller rescue vehicle in its fleet, which can be used for calls in which larger trucks are not needed, thanks to the donation of an ambulance to the department by J.