GREENVILLE — The Northern Light CA Dean Hospital Preserving the Promise Capital Campaign Committee recently unveiled a new Community Match Challenge tracker sign in front of the hospital and announced that the Challenge has surpassed the $400,000 mark.

By Emily Adams FRYEBURG — Finestkind Tree Farms of Dover-Foxcroft took the top honors in the Christmas tree competition again this year at Fryeburg Fair.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — As part of our chapter’s National Daughters of the American Revolution Day of Service, the Tisbury Manor Chapter NSDAR recognized the past service of two local Daughters.

DEXTER — Bunnies are booming at Dexter Regional High School.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Several weeks before the municipal election on Tuesday, Nov.

SEBEC — Jimmy Mike and Barbara Mauzy wish to thank the community for their support of the second annual Jimmy Mike Whoopie Pie Sale Fundraiser.

GUILFORD — Friends of Community Fitness is now offering Healthy4Life, a cardiac fitness program.

SANGERVILLE — A property maintenance ordinance town officials say will allow action to be taken against properties that are in violation of town standards was approved during a special town meeting on Oct.

Sharon Littlefield stepped in as a custodian last week, opening milk cartons and peeling plastic from cheese sticks for pre-K and kindergarten students at Manson Park School in Pittsfield.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff The Penobscot County Jail is closed to all but the most violent new arrestees due to a COVID-19 outbreak among inmates and staff.

October is Domestic Violence Advocacy Month.

The multi state fair, known as the Big E, is an annual event that draws 4-H members from across the Northeast.

AUGUSTA — The Mills Administration announced a call for proposals for conservation and recreation projects through the Lands for Maine’s Future Program.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Let’s Go! recognizes 23 sites in greater Piscataquis County for a commitment to improving children’s health.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Before many were replaced by English or French names, most places in what is now Maine had already been named by the original inhabitants of the land: the Wabanaki, or the People of the Dawn, who include today’s Penobscot Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe, Houlton Band of Maliseets and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, or Mi’kmaq.

By Valerie Royzman, Staff Writer A Piscataquis County physician is urging area residents to get COVID-19 shots as vaccination rates continue to lag in rural parts of the state and local hospitals struggle with capacity, strained mostly by unvaccinated patients.

DEXTER — Masks are required in SAD 46 schools as Penobscot County is in the red, the most severe of the four designations under the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s community transmission color code system.

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