DOVER-FOXCROFT — Earlier this year town officials and residents in and around Piscataquis and Penobscot counties formed a broadband coalition to deal with ongoing poor internet connectivity.

GUILFORD — Piscataquis River Festival organizing committee member, Tom Goulette said, “Following two years of lockdown, businesses, organizations and vendors are happy about getting back in front of the people.

By Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public Thomas Douglass usually looks forward to the end of spring mud season, when most independent loggers like himself return to the woods after a month-long break.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Commission is contributing $10,000 toward a project that will bring 25 miles of bike trails to the Moosehead Lake region.

Observer file photo/Stuart Hedstrom B&B HONOR – The Guilford Bed and Breakfast has just won “Most Charming Traditional B&B – Maine” by LUXlife magazine for the second year in a row.

A county with virtually no treatment centers for opioid addiction had the second worst fatal overdose rate among rural counties last year in Maine.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High School DEXTER — Front, from left, Cally Gudroe, Lily Brown, Emma Paige, and Caitlyn Chabot.

BANGOR  – Dirigo Reads, a program that aims to put a book in the hands of every Maine first grader each month during the school year by 2025, is announcing the addition of 36 schools that will participate in the program during the next school year.

Just in time for National Hunger Awareness Month, Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger is launching a 30-day, $100,000 challenge beginning June 1 to raise money for Good Shepherd Food Bank, local community food pantries, and meal sites.

GUILFORD — Wendy and Michael Denney have provided Victorian elegance for the discerning traveler at the Guilford Bed and Breakfast on Elm Street for three years.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – Frequent travel to Bangor for class can be a barrier to earning a nursing degree.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — From June 1-6 Pine Tree Hospice will hold its second bottle drive.

GUILFORD — A proposed 2022-23 SAD 4 budget totaling $7,772,120 was approved May 25 during the annual district budget meeting held in the Piscataquis Community Elementary School cafeteria.

Absentee ballots are now available ahead of a June 14 election in which Mainers can vote in primary elections for a range of state and local offices as well as local ballot questions.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff By the end of 2022, Maine may be the only state that does not allow some form of Sunday hunting.

The Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft announced that it is looking for area actors between the ages of 14 and 19 to take part in their 2022 Summer Travelling Show.

Rural areas centered around the forest industry have faced uncertain economic times.

GUILFORD — Piscataquis Community Elementary School students will demonstrate their skills as classes, groups, and individuals using their voices, instruments, and movement on two separate nights as we approach the end of the school year.