GUILFORD – Valley Grange has considered May “Community Month” for a number of years.

GREENVILLE – Destination Moosehead Lake is celebrating spring with Moose Mainea.

MILO – The Piscataquis County Democrats’ mission this past year has been to feed those living with food insecurity.

Tired of dealing with poor internet connectivity, town officials and residents in Piscataquis and Penobscot counties formed their own coalition to bring broadband to their regions.

GREENVILLE — Construction has begun on a new $23.

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation was awarded $600,000 to provide workforce development services to young people and businesses in Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Washington counties.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — When a minor earthquake shook Sebec more than a week ago, Piscataquis County’s Emergency Management Agency director couldn’t get online to notify and update residents because of the spotty internet where she lives.

The Piscataquis County Economic Development Council has hired a new executive director at a time when big decisions that will affect the county’s future are pending.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Like many other organizations across the state and beyond, those involved with Partners for Peace — the domestic violence resource center for Piscataquis and Penobscot counties — did their best to navigate the pandemic.

The public will have a chance to weigh in on the proposed year-round ski resort in Piscataquis County — potentially influencing the next steps of the project — during a hearing on June 7.

MONSON — Garments are tacked to the wall and excess fabric is strewn across the wooden floor of an upstairs studio at the Monson Arts Gallery.

Photo courtesy of Maine Highlands FCU BENEFIT SUNFLOWERS – Monty Moose, mascot for Maine Highlands FCU, poses in Dover-Foxcroft with several “sunflowers” that were sold to raise funds for Ukraine.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff Nearly 1,000 volunteers were a key part of the effort last year to set up and staff COVID-19 vaccination clinics across the 10-hospital Northern Light Health network.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis residents in rural areas who don’t have internet could soon be connected under a new county program.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County Commissioners, frustrated with the county’s economic development council’s former leader and his focus on broadband, debated this week whether to cut the group’s funding.

The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife are teaming up for PCSWCD’s spring installment of our Families in the Outdoors program, Fisheries Day.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff Three major hospital construction projects will cost 40 percent more than initially thought as Northern Light Health encounters steep increases to the cost of labor and building materials.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff The National Guard members brought in as reinforcements while Maine hospitals buckled under a surge in COVID-19 cases and staff absences have departed, and the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients statewide is at less than a quarter of its mid-January peak.