By Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News Staff Are you confused about the various rate hikes that will be in your electric bill on July 1? You are not alone.

MONSON — “Northwoods: Absence and Presence The art of Alan Bray and Poetry of Wesley McNair,” an exhibit that explores the relationship of people to place in Northern New England, opens on Friday, June 16 and runs through Oct.

Anna Shaw Buck Prize for Excellence in Written Spanish: Aaden Lane C.

By Aislinn Sarnacki I’ve been finding strange things along hiking trails recently.

MONSON — Marilou Ranta never considered herself or her restaurant elite like the culinary gems of Portland, Boston and New York that typically receive national recognition.

JMG, a leading organization in Maine committed to empowering Maine students, is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a $10,000 State Farm Good Neighbor Citizenship Company Grant.

“Behind the rock walls in Sebec we have been working on an amazing project,” says Joi Stevens of Rockwall Doodles.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County has never had a logo of its own, instead various emblems and icons have been used over the years.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff A restaurant in the Piscataquis County town of Monson won a James Beard Award on Monday night for Outstanding Hospitality, making it the seventh restaurant or chef in Maine to be honored with the award.

MONSON — The Monson Collaborative, a local organization whose goal is to bring vitality to downtown Monson, recently gave out over $12,000 in grant money to four local businesses and organizations.

By Aislinn Sarnacki In the shade of stunted spruce trees, mounds of snow slowly melted in the warmth of late May.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The 20 voters attending the annual RSU 68 district budget meeting on May 30 at the SeDoMoCha School approved a proposed 2023-24 budget totaling $13,383,764.

Photo courtesy of SeDoMoCha School STUDENTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT — The last Student in the Spotlight recognition ceremony of 2022-23 at the SeDoMoCha School in Dover-Foxcroft was held on May 26.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — In recognition of the achievement by local restaurant The Quarry, the Center Theatre will be hosting a free watch party for the James Beard Awards presentation starting at 6 p.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Something fishy that has been going on all year with SeDoMoCha Elementary School fourth-graders came to an end along the banks of the Piscataquis River at Brown’s Mill Park on May 25.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will be giving away tomato seedlings at various locations in Piscataquis County from May 30 to June 7.

Ten members of the Piscataquis Region Retired Educators Association met on May 23 at the Thompson Free Library in Dover-Foxcroft.