By Lauren Abbate, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine Department of Corrections has rescinded a recent directive that placed new restrictions on the types of mail prisoners can receive, which was resulting in hundreds of pieces of mail being returned to sender.

By Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine public health officials on Thursday floated the possibility of offering coronavirus vaccines without appointments, which would make the vaccination effort more flexible but would pose logistical hurdles.

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HALLOWELL – NAMI Maine, a statewide nonprofit organization providing education, support, and advocacy for people living with mental illness and their families announces that registration is now open for two separate online courses for people who have an adult family member living with a mental health condition.

GUILFORD — With a pair of area businesses’ donations for upgrading the Piscataquis Community High School soccer field and track, a committee will start raising the $103,000 needed for a rubber surface on the new running oval.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Private ponds that are stocked with trout provide multiple benefits for landowners and their families.

Join Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife fisheries and wildlife biologists for the following live presentations on the MDIFW YouTube page.

The nonpartisan community group, PROACT!, announced that they presented the Piscataquis County  Commissioners with a petition signed online by over 300 people asking the commissioners to rescind  their January ‘Resolution of Protest.

BANGOR — With 2020 certain to be remembered for COVID-19 and social unrest, Bangor Savings Bank focused its charitable giving in precisely those areas and finished its fiscal year with nearly $1.

By Charles Eichacker, Maine Public The beaver has been one of the nation’s great ecological comeback stories.

HALLOWELL – NAMI Maine, a statewide nonprofit organization providing education, support and advocacy for people living with mental illness and their families, is seeking volunteers interested in being trained as certified NAMI Family-to-Family teachers.

By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff For some people, a pond is not fully a pond unless it has fish in it.

Even though it was a difficult year for fundraising in 2020, Maine Highlands Federal Credit  was able to raise over $17,000 for the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff For nearly two decades, commercial wind farms have been touted in Maine as a way to generate electricity without pollution, and as a way rural locales in Maine can generate revenue for themselves by hosting turbines worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

BANGOR/DOVER-FOXCROFT — Partners for Peace will host their 2021 annual meeting from 3:30 to 4:30 p.

PITTSFIELD — In April of 2020 Puritan Medical Products, one of two major manufacturers of COVID-19 testing swabs, reached out to Cianbro in desperate need of expanding from their Guilford facility to meet the ever-growing demand for testing swabs.

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, businesses across the region have been navigating new methods of operation.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A public hearing on tax increment financing for the project to develop a ski resort with year-round attractions on 1,700 acres overlooking Moosehead Lake in the unorganized territory outside of Greenville will be part of the next regular Piscataquis County Commissioners meeting at 8:30 a.