DOVER-FOXCROFT — The staff at Mayo Orthopedics in Dover-Foxcroft, in partnership with Shriners Hospitals, will offer a free screening clinic from 10 a.

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    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The organizers of the 2013 Maine Whoopie Pie Festival announced that for the second year they are hosting “The Amazing Whoopie Pie Race.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Nine students were awarded Horizon Scholarships from the Board of Trustees at Foxcroft Academy on May 6.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — For five years area senior citizens have able to get together to share food and company, and hear from various weekly guest speakers, during bi-weekly meetings of Senior Network.

Darcy Merrill, RN was the recipient of Mayo Regional Hospital’s 2013 Nursing Excellence Award on May 6, part of the National Nurses’ Week activities.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Womancare, a Piscataquis County-based organization working to end domestic violence, marked the end of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week with a forum celebrating the advances made over the history of the extension of legislated rights to the victims of crime.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society will meet on Wednesday evening, May 8 at 7 in the Gerrish Room at Thayer Parkway.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Hard to believe that the Senior Network will be celebrating its fifth birthday on this spring.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free workshops, Essentials of College Planning, for adults 19 and over on Monday, May 6 at the Piscataquis Valley Adult Education Cooperative, 48 Morton Avenue, at 9 a.

The front connector building is shown being removed at the Moosehead site in Dover-Foxcroft.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre for the Performing Arts announces its first digital “Day of Release” movie “Star Trek Into Darkness” which will open on Friday, May 17 at the Center Theatre at the same time that it opens nationwide.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Maine will sponsor a free Family-to-Family Education Program specifically designed for families of people diagnosed with mental illness.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County Retired Educators resumed meetings April 23 at the Bear’s Den with 13 members and one guest.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — It’s spring! Another sure sign is the opening of farmers’ markets all over the state of Maine.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — National Volunteer Week was April 21-27.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — On the heels of being voted as winner of the 2013 About.

The SeDoMoCha Builder’s Club offered free face painting on April 27 during the Kiwanis Piscataquis River Race.