By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Stubby and Nena Schultz were the first couple to jump at the chance to go up, up, and away in a beautiful balloon in the Balloon Festival Committee’s first annual event to be held this weekend.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free workshops the Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 and over on Monday, June 3 and Monday, June 17 at the Piscataquis Valley Adult Education Cooperative, 48 Morton Avenue, at 9 a.

Seventy five children attended the Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs event May 18 at Kiwanis Park behind the PRYCMA in Dover-Foxcroft.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Girl Scout Troop 712 from Milo helped serve residents at Hibbard Nursing Home for the Mother’s Day Social on May 12.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Samantha Estes, RN, who began her nursing career at Mayo Regional Hospital in 1999, has returned to Mayo as Nurse Manager of the Intensive Care Unit.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The RSU 68 Board of Directors gave their approval to a budget for the 2013-14 academic year totaling $9,792,467 during a monthly meeting May 7 at the SeDoMoCha School.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Jane Hibbard-Merrill, owner and president of Hibbard Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, has announced today that she has agreed to sell the Nursing Home and Main Street West to First Atlantic HealthCare (FAHC) located in South Portland, Maine.

Diane Sharrow, right, and Lisa Kingsbury wash the windows of downtown Dover-Foxcroft businesses on the morning of May 17 as part of the second annual Shiretown Shine Up.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Students and family members of the pre-kindergarten program at SeDoMoCha Elementary School spent recent evenings taking part in activities designed to get them interested in reading together during “Monkey Mayhem Family Literacy Night” held May 14 and 16 for the morning and afternoon program sessions.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The commissioners voted unanimously to hold a special meeting next week to award a contract for ditching and culvert replacement along a 1.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Thanks to the generosity of the Valley Grange, a tradition has been in place for a number of years in which grade 3 students in RSU 68 and SAD 4 and 41 each receive a dictionary through the Words for Thirds Dictionary Project.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Saturday, May 18 at 7 p.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Sixteen members of the GFWC/Miosac Club met May 7 for the annual meeting.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy honored the Class of 2013’s outstanding scholars at its annual Rose Award ceremony on the afternoon of May 8.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Maine’s 2013 4-H Paper Clover Campaign in partnership with Tractor Supply Company (TSC) will be running through May 19, part of a nationwide in-store fundraiser that benefits state and local 4-H programming in each of the communities where a TSC or Del’s Farm and Feed Supply store is located.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Wednesday, May 22 at 6:30 p.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer    DOVER-FOXCROFT — A collaboration between Diane Robinson’s grade 6 class and students of third-grade teacher Jessica Dunton has resulted in a collection of writings and illustrations making up “The SeDoMoCha Animal Book,” which is scheduled to be available through Amazon.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer    DOVER-FOXCROFT — SeDoMoCha Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders had the opportunity to hear from over two dozen speakers, who told them about what they do for a living and how they arrived to where they are from their school days during Career Day on May 6.