By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County Treasurer and former Bangor School Committee member John Hiatt was indicted Friday by the Penobscot County grand jury on charges related to his alleged harassment of a female friend.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A text alert issued Thursday morning that was among the first of its kind warned that there had been a spike in drug overdoses in Penobscot County over the past 24 hours.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft announced that it will be holding a Whoopie Pie Eating Contest as a fundraiser on Sunday, Sept.

By Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff HOULTON — Some of Maine’s rivers have the lowest water levels they’ve seen in decades, and it would take more than a foot of rain to pull Maine out of the drought it has been in for the second straight summer.

By David Marino Jr.

DEXTER — The SAD 46 Board of Directors authorized Superintendent Kevin Jordan to enter into an agreement with Group Mission Trips — a non-profit, interdenominational Christian volunteer home-repair group — to host a summer workcamp again next summer.

DEXTER — SAD 46 will require masks or face shields in the schools only under certain circumstances guided by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s community transmission color code system.

By David Marino Jr.

By Lia Russell Piscataquis, Penobscot and Waldo counties have had the highest rates of new coronavirus cases in recent weeks as the highly contagious delta variant has taken hold and the counties’ lower-than-average vaccination rates have persisted.

By Lynne Fort, Bangor Daily News Staff With temperatures set to climb into the 90s today and much of the state under a heat advisory, many Mainers will be trying to stay cool.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County is considering leasing a 50-bed mobile jail unit that would sit in the current jail’s parking lot to ease chronic overcrowding at the facility, which is licensed to hold 157 inmates.

Recent studies have shown that time spent in nature sparks and improves creativity, along with its other many benefits.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Civil War author and historian Brian Swartz will speak at the Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society meeting on Wednesday evening Sept.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — When Dover-Foxcroft residents head to the polls in November, they will be voting on articles concerning the creation of ATV routes and the permitting of certain retail marijuna facilities.

The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District was approached by the executive director of the Maine TREE Foundation, Jonathan LaBonte, to take part in their annual Teacher Tour.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A Superior Court judge on Monday, Aug.

By Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News Staff Existing home sales in Maine showed signs of cooling in July, even though sales outpaced pre-pandemic numbers, according to data from state and national real estate groups.

By Kim Brawn In the before times, uncertainty seemed at arm’s length.