With the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) scheduled to release its first round of color designations pertaining to the individual levels of risk for the state’s school districts on Friday, July 31, officials with the region’s education units have been busy making plans for how students return to classes in the fall.

SANGERVILLE — Since taking on the role of the president/CEO of a Pittsfield-based construction company dating back to 1946, moving the firm to Sangerville and changing the name to Gordon Contracting Inc.

Maine’s court system needs an additional $14 million so it can safely resume full-time operations and start clearing a backlog of cases that has built up during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the state’s court administrator.

As Maine chief forest ranger Bill Hamilton spent a few minutes discussing campfire safety recently, much of the state baked on yet another 80-degree day, and Bangor-area lawns turned brown after weeks of little rain.

While Maine colleges and universities plan to test many students and staff as they reopen their campuses this fall, the same scale of testing is unlikely in the state’s public schools.

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If you love wildlife and would like to see more of it around your home, you’re in luck.

To some, it may have seemed like a win-win situation when a group of more than 100 Maine communities announced early this month that it was planning to send a majority of its household trash to a familiar place: an Orrington facility that burns waste to generate electricity.

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DOVER-FOXCROFT — The hilly and mountainous geography of Piscataquis County provides much of the region’s natural beauty, but also creates communications issues for area fire and police departments and emergency medical personnel.

Pine Tree Hospice wants to “plant” bright pinwheel flowers at your house, or the house of someone you know.

Thanks to its relatively low levels of COVID-19 cases, Maine is in a better position than other states to implement safety protocols and send students physically back to schools this fall, public health officials have said.

As school districts across Maine develop and implement COVID safety plans, they will receive millions of dollars in financial aid from the state through the federal coronavirus relief package.

The owners of the recently shuttered Hampden waste plant are blaming many of its financial problems on a contractor that staffed and ran the facility, arguing in court documents that the contractor hired and then poorly supervised unqualified workers at the plant.

Thanks to  to the generosity of the Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union, Piscataquis County officials will not need to take out a $145,000 bond for the purchase of the former Key Bank building at 2 Hudson Avenue in downtown Guilford to become the new home of the patrol and investigation divisions of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office.

The committee charged with recommending urgent measures to stabilize and support Maine’s economy amid the coronavirus pandemic recommended the state provide $1.

The state is now opening 18 new drive-up coronavirus testing sites in places as far abreast as South Portland and Presque Isle as part of a previously announced expansion to the state’s overall ability to detect the disease.

DOVER-FOXCROFT Shall the town appropriate revenues anticipated  in the amount of $2,133,808 and  appropriate additional funds including  funds from surplus in the amount of $260,000,  for a total amount of $2,393,808  to be used to reduce amounts  to be raised from the property tax commitment  to fund appropriations in subsequent articles,  and; authorize the board of selectmen  to appropriate an additional amount  from surplus to reduce the property tax commitment? Yes No 791 167   Shall the town raise and appropriate  the sum of $4,651,635, for town operations?  (Revenue and surplus to be used  to reduce the amount to be raised  to fund this article is $2,279,508,  net amount to be raised is $2,372,127) Yes No 871 195   Shall the town raise and appropriate the sum  of $205,500 to capital reserve to fund capital equipment?  (Revenue and surplus to be used to reduce the amount  to be raised to fund this article is $18,600, net amount  to be raised is $186,900);  and authorize the board of selectmen to expend funds) Yes No 813 214   Shall the town raise and appropriate the sum  of $72,500 to capital reserve to fund  capital improvements to town buildings and facilities?  (Revenue to be used to reduce the amount to be raised to fund  this article is $5,700, net amount to be raised is $66,800);  and authorize the board of selectmen to expend funds) Yes No 766 219   Shall the town appropriate all money received  from the the state (anticipated in the amount of $90,000)  for capital improvements and maintenance of town roads  and bridges and raise and appropriate $310,000  for capital improvements and maintenance for town roads?  Total expenditure = $400,000.