DEXTER — Students from Dexter Regional High School, Ridge View Community School, Piscataquis Community Secondary School, Penquis Valley High School, Foxcroft Academy, and SeDoMoCha Middle School will gather on Friday, March 22 in Dexter for a regional summit focused on leading positive change in their schools and communities.

BREWER — Displaying continued commitment to the health of its patients, colleagues, and community, Northern Light Health has been selected as the newest member of the Health Care Climate Council.

MILO — The National Garden Club Conservation Pledge, “I pledge to protect and conserve the natural resources of the planet Earth and promise to promote education so we may become caretakers of our air, water, forests, land, and wildlife.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli The weather along the swath of eclipse totality from Mexico to Maine is a big unknown.

Northern Light CA Dean and Mayo Hospitals will hold naloxone education and distribution events in Dexter, Dover-Foxcroft, Greenville, and Milo: Tuesday, March 26 6:30 p.

MILO — With the municipal audit awaiting completion, over a dozen articles on the warrant for the 2024 annual meeting were not voted on by the two dozen residents gathered in the Ed Wingler Auditorium upstairs at the Milo Town Hall on the evening of March 11.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff A $30 million bond request meant to bolster existing and develop new trails could be used to repair damage that multiple storms inflicted on the state’s trail system, according to a Maine Trails Coalition spokesperson on March 14.

Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available for businesses and nonprofits from the U.

ORNEVILLE TOWNSHIP — Joseph Brown, D-Orneville Township announces his candidacy for the Maine House of Representatives District 31, which includes Atkinson Township, Brownville, Dover-Foxcroft, Lakeview Plantation, Medford, Milo, and Orneville Township.

MILO — Several months into the new year SAD 41 administrators are busy with budget preparations for the upcoming academic year.

MILO — A vehicle that would have replaced a more than 40-year-old ladder truck in the Milo Fire Department fleet will not be coming to Maine, the Milo Select Board learned from Fire Chief Matt Demers during a meeting on Tuesday, March 5.

By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff You probably won’t see any animals, birds or amphibians wearing special dark glasses during the upcoming total solar eclipse.

Jessica Anderson of “Count ME In” will be the keynote speaker at the seventh annual “S-T-R-E-T-C-H  your Teaching” workshop to be held Saturday, April 6  at the United Technologies Center Maine in Bangor from 9 a.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The construction process to move the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center from cramped conditions in the Piscataquis County Jail in Dover-Foxcroft into the administrative unit of the sheriff’s office on the first floor of the same larger building has begun.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — Gov.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Twenty-four hours makes a huge difference between safe ice and taking a cold swim this year.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Tuesday, Feb.

Grade eight, high honors: Sierra Bolstridge, Mario Cook, Maxximis Moulton, Adalai Perkins; honors: Carter Bender, Chase Brown, Lucas Hoffman, Jacoby Landry, Aidynn Schmidt, Bradlee Thomas.