The SAD 4 school board approved a 2016-17 budget totaling $6,879,013 during an Oct. 11 meeting at Piscataquis Community Elementary School.

GUILFORD — The Mid-Maine Duplicate Bridge Club played on Oct.

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    Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom For the 20th year, runners and walkers traveled a five kilometer course to raise funds for the Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance in the Race to End Domestic Abuse.

GUILFORD — A free suicide prevention workshop will be held on Thursday, Oct.

Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom RIDING TO END DOMESTIC ABUSE — The Piscataquis County United Bikers of Maine rode to the 20th annual Race to End Domestic Abuse on Oct.

GUILFORD — The Mid-Maine Duplicate Bridge Club played on Sept.

Observer photo/Stuart HedstromPURPLE RIBBON — The Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance has events planned throughout October for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, including the 20th annual Race to End Domestic Abuse Sunday morning in Guilford.

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  Teacher is Outstanding Conservation Educator of the Year By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer GUILFORD — For her work incorporating nature and resource protection into the classroom, Piscataquis Community Elementary School (PCES) sixth-grade teacher Rochelle Titcomb has been named the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District’s (PCSWCD) 2016 Outstanding Conservation Educator of the Year.

9/11 MEMORIAL DAFFODILS Photo courtesy of PCES grade 4 teacher Brenda H.

GUILFORD — The Mid-Maine Duplicate Bridge Club played on Sept.

GUILFORD — The Guilford Memorial Library trustees and staff with the Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War proudly present the Guilford Bicentennial 1800s Fashion Show.

GUILFORD — The annual Harvest Fair will celebrate the town of Guilford’s Bicentennial with a day of activities on Saturday, Sept.

  GUILFORD — A free suicide prevention workshop will be held on Tuesday, Sept.

GUILFORD — Walter Boomsma, educator, author and founder of Abbot Village Press, recently announced an expansion of the suicide prevention training he’s offered in the past.

GUILFORD — A short time ago the Wayne Bennett family received an email from a young lady in Oak Park, Ill.