By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer MILO — During an Aug.

Due to CDBG funds  By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer BROWNVILLE — In June Maine Highlands Sugarworks of Williamsburg Township was awarded a $50,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) microenterprise assistance grant for new equipment to expand operations.

  By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — For years, dispatchers with the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department have been working with an outdated and homemade console system.

    Special select meeting set for Sept.

  Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom MARDI GRAS IN BROWNVILLE — The 2015 Brownville Days featured a Mardi Gras theme for events throughout Saturday, Aug.

  DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Saturday, Aug.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Community Health and Counseling Services (CHCS) and Rape Response Services (RRS) will host a six-week support group, Sister Quest.

GUILFORD — The Mid-Maine Duplicate Bridge Club played on Aug.

  SANGERVILLE — Each year, the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District (PCSWCD) honors an educator working in the county with its Outstanding Conservation Educator of the Year award for that educator’s dedication to fostering students’ learning and understanding of natural resource ecology, conservation biology and related curriculum.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Local WindowDressers volunteers in the Dover-Foxcroft are making appointments now to measure windows for cost-saving insulating window inserts.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Thompson Free Library has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer “Let’s Talk About It”, a free reading and discussion group with copies of books available through the library.

DEXTER — USDA Rural Development State Director Virginia Manuel has announced an investment of $815,700 for five projects across Maine that will provide important benefits in Maine’s rural communities, including for the Dexter Utility District.

BROWNVILLE — During National Health Center Week, Health and Human Services announced $169 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 266 new health center sites across the U.

  By Nok-Noi Ricker BDN Staff DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — Murder suspect Robert Burton does not want to publicly disclose how he eluded capture for more than two months while multiple law enforcement agencies conducted an intensive search for him, according to his attorney.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Plans are well underway for the 2016 election, at both the national and state levels, Maine Republican Party Chair Rick Bennett of Oxford told members of the Piscataquis County Republican Committee during an Aug.

  By Stuart Hedstrom Staff Writer MILO — A pair of familiar faces will be in somewhat new places for the upcoming school year as the new principals for the Brownville and Milo elementary schools were appointed and transferred respectively during an Aug.

By Stuart Hedstrom Staff Writer DEXTER — In order to get a minimum standard for the maintenance of the premises surrounding buildings and vacant lots, the Dexter Town Council gave its approval to a property maintenance ordinance during a monthly meeting on Aug.

  Brownville Days returned for the first time in five years on Aug.