SHIRLEY — Spring is in the air and the riding is still good in the area.

MILO — An 84-year-old Milo man faces an attempted murder charge after allegedly pointing a loaded gun at the police chief’s head and threatening to kill him earlier this month.

Grade 8, high honors – habits of work: Vera Alexander, Mellesse Grant, Pace Jarrett, Grace Jiang, Madison LaGross, Bodhi Langlais, Baylee Packard, Daisy Perkins, and Ian Saunders;  honors – habits of work: Brandon Batey, Ella-marie Buschmann, Jacob Campbell, Adalea Gudroe, and Tristan Hopkins-Watrous; high honors – academic: Vera Alexander, Pace Jarrett, Grace Jiang, and Ian Saunders; honors – academic: Bodhi Langlais.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill asked lawmakers on March 23 to support funding for an additional four judges, clerks and judicial marshals to help clear a backlog of cases that continues to grow despite the end of pandemic-imposed restrictions.

CAMDEN — Camden National Bank announced that Brandon Boey was promoted to senior vice president, general counsel, and director of compliance.

LEXINGTON, Virginia — “Think back to the last time you watched a movie about a big heist.

The organization that has maintained Big Moose Mountain in Greenville since 2012 has pledged to use $200,000 to improve the ski area.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County’s commissioners agreed during a meeting Tuesday to seek bids for a roof repair project for the sheriff’s office patrol building in Guilford.

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

MILO — The Positive Action Team and Northern Light Mayo Hospital invite teens and their parents to join them for a discussion about mental health and wellness in our student body on Friday, March 24  from 5:30 to 7:30 p.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC Miosac Club held a meeting on March 7 at the Dover-Foxcroft Congregational Church.

CAMDEN — Camden National Bank announced that Kathleen (Kate) Bellmore was promoted to senior vice president, talent acquisition & diversity, equity and inclusion officer.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre announced the return of the annual April Vacation Theater Camp, running from Monday, April 17 through Friday, April 21.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Tuesday, March 14 SeDoMoCha Middle School celebrated Pi Day with an assembly in the gym.

Join PCSWCD as they host two, hour-long lunch time webinars that focus on forest health topics with guests from the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.

GREENVILLE — Before the Greenville fire station can be demolished and replaced with a new public safety building, the Minden Street structure needs to be cleared out.

MILO — Many of the articles making up the warrant for the 2023 annual town meeting were not voted on by residents gathered in the Ed Wingler Auditorium upstairs at the Milo Town Hall on the evening of March 13.

GREENVILLE — A couple and two children who became stranded out on the ice on Moosehead Lake during a severe winter storm were rescued late in the night on March 14 by a group of both Maine Game Warden and Passamaquoddy Game Warden trainees who were in the area.