AUGUSTA – Gov.

AARP announced that eight Maine organizations will receive 2020 Community Challenge grants – part of the largest number of grantees to date with more than $2.

Lance Walker was one of five U.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Last month the previously anonymous identify of a benefactor — the Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union in making the largest contribution in its 54-year history — providing the $145,000 to enable the county to purchase the former Key Bank building on Hudson Avenue in downtown Guilford to be the new home of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office patrol and investigation divisions was revealed during a presentation at the site.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscatgaquis County Ice Arena and Center Theatre announced they are holding a fall season for the popular Dover-Foxcroft Drive-in.

More people who want to know if they have the coronavirus even if they don’t have symptoms will now be able to get tested at 10 sites across Maine run by Northern Light Health, the state’s second-largest hospital system, as a result of a state effort to provide medical providers with more resources to surveil for the virus.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Earlier this summer the town of Dover-Foxcroft was awarded an approximate $255,000 grant through the Keep Maine Healthy COVID-19 Awareness Campaign to help cover unexpected costs for the community and other Piscataquis County towns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

DEXTER – Hometown Health Center is participating in a new clinical trial to use telemedicine for the treatment of opioid addiction (or opioid use disorder).

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Aug.

GUILFORD — The spread of COVID-19 this spring prodded a Guilford textile mill to act quickly for its own fiscal health.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft will be offering a new after-school program for high school students starting Aug.

DEXTER — To help determine what the direction the town should go in terms of permitting marijuana-related businesses or not, the Dexter Town Council approved a pair of referendum questions for the November ballot during an Aug.

BREWER — Northern Light Health has received a $1 million federal grant to support community efforts toward establishing or enhancing opioid use prevention, treatment and recovery services in rural communities served by the healthcare system.

GUILFORD — U.

A federal judge who has upheld Maine’s ranked-choice voting system once before reiterated his view that the method is constitutional Friday, Aug.

Two students at Foxcroft Academy have tested positive for the coronavirus, and they had participated in the Dover-Foxcroft school’s preseason athletic workouts before the school called them off Tuesday, according to the academy’s head of school.

DEXTER — Students at the Ridge View Community School and Dexter Regional High School will be back in the respective buildings when classes resume next month, families can also opt for full-time remote learning if they wish, as the SAD 46 directors approved a “Return to School Plan” on Aug.

On March 10, when Maine resident and motel owner Linda York Cook traveled to Japan to attend her son’s wedding, she thought she would be back home by mid-April.