AUGUSTA — Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) is partnering with the Maine Department of Education (DOE) to ensure that adult learners have the technology they need to continue their studies.

MILO — The annual SAD 41 district budget meeting will be different in 2020 as residents of Brownville, LaGrange and Milo can gather remotely via Zoom at 5:30 p.

LAGRANGE — A 35-year-old Penobscot County woman killed in an evening crash on July 7 in LaGrange has been identified.

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) is reminding the public about the risk of spreading tree-killing invasive species while moving firewood.

LAGRANGE — One person was killed in a Tuesday evening crash in LaGrange.

GUILFORD — Thanks to the generosity of the Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union, the patrol and investigation divisions of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office will have a new home in downtown Guilford at the former Key Bank building.

The Maine Audubon Society is going ahead with its annual count of common loons this year.

As debates rage on in Maine and around the country about the removal of monuments and renaming of buildings and locales named for slave owners, racists and other historical figures with problematic stories, other influential Mainers had similarly checkered pasts — even if there are no statues or buildings named for them.

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The Maine Department of Education continues to work with educators and health experts from across the state to develop health markers and corresponding plans to ensure the safe return to classroom instruction.

BREWER — Kathy Corey has been elected as the next chair of the Northern Light Health Board of Directors.

ATV owners must now register or renew registrations for 2020-21.

This holiday weekend, the Maine Warden Service will be active patrolling Maine waterways, keeping Maine boaters safe and enforcing Maine’s boating laws in order to raise awareness about operating under the influence, removing boaters who are operating impaired and ensuring that boats are registered and boaters are wearing life jackets.

The 115 towns that have been sending their trash to landfills over the past month since the closure of a new waste processing plant in Hampden will instead temporarily send three-quarters of their trash to the incinerator that accepted the towns’ waste until 2018.

MILO — A school-based summer lunch program that serves SAD 41 children in Milo, LaGrange and Brownville has been halted this week after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.

MILO — When county residents head to the polls on Tuesday, July 14 they will be voting on a pair of state bond questions, political party primaries when applicable and a question concerning a bond to purchase the former Key Bank building in downtown Guilford to be the new home of the sheriff’s office patrol and investigation divisions.

"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make. There were so many factors to consider," explained members of the Milo Garden Club Advisory Board. Because the Summer Fair is a major fundraiser which enables the club to donate to 14 organizations and charities, members will discuss fundraising ideas in September.

Recently Northern Light Health leadership announced their systemwide plan to eliminate racism and other forms of discrimination and promote a strong future for social and medical justice.