AUGUSTA — Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) is partnering with the Maine Department of Education (DOE) to ensure that adult learners have the technology they need to continue their studies.

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) is reminding the public about the risk of spreading tree-killing invasive species while moving firewood.

GUILFORD — Thanks to the generosity of the Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union, the patrol and investigation divisions of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office will have a new home in downtown Guilford at the former Key Bank building.

The Maine Audubon Society is going ahead with its annual count of common loons this year.

As debates rage on in Maine and around the country about the removal of monuments and renaming of buildings and locales named for slave owners, racists and other historical figures with problematic stories, other influential Mainers had similarly checkered pasts — even if there are no statues or buildings named for them.

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The Maine Department of Education continues to work with educators and health experts from across the state to develop health markers and corresponding plans to ensure the safe return to classroom instruction.

BREWER — Kathy Corey has been elected as the next chair of the Northern Light Health Board of Directors.

ATV owners must now register or renew registrations for 2020-21.

This holiday weekend, the Maine Warden Service will be active patrolling Maine waterways, keeping Maine boaters safe and enforcing Maine’s boating laws in order to raise awareness about operating under the influence, removing boaters who are operating impaired and ensuring that boats are registered and boaters are wearing life jackets.

The 115 towns that have been sending their trash to landfills over the past month since the closure of a new waste processing plant in Hampden will instead temporarily send three-quarters of their trash to the incinerator that accepted the towns’ waste until 2018.

GUILFORD — Piscataquis Community School Elementary and Middle School students are receiving their yearbooks free this year, compliments of the H.

MILO — When county residents head to the polls on Tuesday, July 14 they will be voting on a pair of state bond questions, political party primaries when applicable and a question concerning a bond to purchase the former Key Bank building in downtown Guilford to be the new home of the sheriff’s office patrol and investigation divisions.

GUILFORD — A proposed $7,397,862 budget for the 2020-21 academic year was approved — with all 22 articles approved as written over 20 minutes with minimal discussion from the more than 30 registered voters present — during the annual district budget meeting on June 25 in the gymnasium at Piscataquis Community High School.

Family history and influential high school teachers led Joe Hennessey to a career in education.

A strike at Bath Iron Works won’t affect the company’s delivery of machines needed to ramp up production of specialized swabs used for tests for the new coronavirus, officials say.

The East Sangerville Grange is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Don Hall Scholarship. A first-year scholarship has been awarded to Megan McLaughlin, a 2020 graduate of Piscataquis Community High School in Guilford. In addition, a renewal scholarship has been awarded to Brooke Kujawski, a 2019 graduate of Piscataquis Community High School.

The Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC) announced it will begin to ease certain restrictions within correctional facilities. The decision to ease restrictions, such as those related to visitation, community restitution, work release and transfers, have been made in close consultation with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC). Many of the restrictions scheduled to be lifted in the coming weeks have been in place since early March.