MONSON — Monson Free Public Library has been awarded an $11,000 Conservation for All grant from the Maine Community Foundation to further develop an outdoor gear library.

SHIRLEY — After losing our trail sled to fire we now have a replacement Expedition.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff Brittany McAllister is in her first season coaching basketball.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Anglers are invited to Sebec Lake for the 12th annual Dover-Foxcroft Firefighters Association Ice Fishing Derby on Saturday, Feb.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Ten years ago, the last squeaking sneakers, swishing baskets and roaring crowds could be heard echoing into the rafters of the Bangor Auditorium.

Justina Dill and Wendy Lorigan, teachers at Piscataquis Community Elementary School in Guilford, will be featured presenters at the annual S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Teaching Workshop to be held on Saturday, March 18 at University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast.

SANGERVILLE — A church in Piscataquis County is cooking up traditional dishes from Ukraine and raising funds to support the country as it nears the one-year anniversary of a long and devastating war with Russia.

SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan Savings recently held their annual all employee meeting and recognition dinner.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC MIOSAC Club met on Feb.

By Kim Brawn It’s fleeting and precious and “of the essence” in climactic movie scenes.

By Charlie Eichacker, Maine Public Two credit rating agencies have just lowered their assessments of one of Maine’s biggest health care organizations, Northern Light Health, after it ended last year with an operating loss of more than $100 million because of a variety of staffing and operating challenges.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — We are still in the midst of the 2022-23 school year but before you know it, another school year will be gone by.

GREENVILLE — Several weeks before the 2023 Wilderness Sled Dog Race, trail conditions were in poor shape and organizers worried the event would need to be canceled.

Credit union representatives from across Maine came together Feb.

MONSON — On Saturday, Feb.

GREENVILLE — The first of three zones of miles of free-to-ride mountain bike trails on Little Moose Mountain Public Reserved Land opened this past year thanks to the efforts of the Moosehead Outdoor Alliance — a nonprofit formed with a mission to design and build a premier trail system.

Observer file photo/Jeannette Hughes CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY WITH SOME ICE FISHING — Then 13-year-old Nathaniel, left, and Brody — who celebrated his ninth birthday on Feb.

File photo SMOOTHING THE TRAVEL WAY — Travis Gould of Dexter and his team of work horses demonstrate Monson’s snow roller during a past Snow Roller Day.