By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — For the last several months Dover-Foxcroft officials have been examining the possible implementation of impact fees and contract rezoning.

CONGRATS ON 175 YEARS Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Denise Buzzelli recently visited the Piscataquis Observer office in Dover-Foxcroft where the newspaper staff was presented with a plaque and certificate in recognition of the Piscataquis Observer’s over 175 years of commitment to the area’s communities.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Earlier in the school year SeDoMoCha Middle School students in grades 5-8 took the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) tests, with teachers and administrators incorporating a theme centered around ninjas — “Be a NECAP Ninja Star” — to help engage the pupils.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Recently the Piscataquis Regional YMCA and Charlotte White Center both received a grant from Maine Health Access Foundation health funding initiatives designed to help plan ways to improve and support the health of residents in Piscataquis County.

    BANGOR — The New England School of Communications has announced the fall 2013 Honors List, and Jeffrey Perry, a resident of Dover-Foxcroft, earned the distinction of being named to the High Honors List.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District (PCSWCD) will hold an educational workshop on wood duck nesting ecology on Saturday, March 15 from 9 a.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The annual Community Project Linus Blanket Day will be held on April 26, at the Penquis Higher Education Center on Mayo Street from 9 a.

 Residents at Hibbard Nursing Skilled Center in Dover-Foxcroft recently enjoyed a visit from Maine-ly Dolls Club Member Sheila Schaaf, who spoke of her love of collecting dolls.

    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.