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

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — This year students in both the elementary and middle schools at SeDoMoCha will be learning lessons using Next Generation Science Standards.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — While the contract between USA Energy Group and the Maine Municipal Review Committee (MRC) — the nonprofit organization that runs the Penobscot Energy Recovery Company —doesn’t expire until 2018, some towns are already concerned about the future of the operation.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — A Tampa, Fla.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — Piscataquis County revelers don’t have to drive to Bangor to see a New Year’s Eve ball drop this year.

    GUILFORD — The SAD 4 Elementary Holiday Concert for grades K-6 will be held on Wednesday, Dec.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — The Guilford Board of Selectmen have set Tuesday, Feb.

Contributed photo      In late October, the sixth-graders of Piscataquis Community Elementary School learned that the local food cupboard was having some real struggles financially.

    GUILFORD — The Guilford Christmas tree lighting ceremony will be held Saturday, Dec.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — Around 60 communities in Maine have enacted their own regulations on the use of fireworks and only half of them ban consumer pyrotechnics altogether.

    GUILFORD — This Nov.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — A retired school superintendent is the first candidate to announce their intentions to run for the Maine House seat being vacated by Rep.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     GUILFORD — On Saturday, Nov.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — While fireworks haven’t been a chronic problem in the town of Guilford, the Planning Board will host a public hearing on Wednesday, Nov.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — Hundreds of veterans, their families and friends packed the Piscataquis Community Secondary School gym on Friday, Nov.

GRAND OLD FLAG Observer photo/Mike Lange Third graders saluted Old Glory with a song and a wave at the Veterans’ Day salute at PCSS on Nov.

    GUILFORD — Each year the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District (PCSWCD) recognizes one teacher in Piscataquis County as the Outstanding Conservation Teacher of the Year, for his or her dedication to fostering students’ learning and understanding of natural resource ecology, conservation biology and related curriculum that is aligned to the State of Maine Learning Results standards.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — “I’m going home today, one way or the other!” Those were Bob Littlefield’s last words to Tom Goulette on Friday, Nov.