The M manufacturing zones are intended to provide appropriately located areas for corporate and general office and limited commercial services, manufacturing enterprises, industrial establishments and research developments that enhance the city’s economic base and provide jobs for residents of the area, while at the same time ensuring a high quality of life free from excessive noise, odors, dust, smoke, heavy traffic congestion and air and water pollution.

    SANGERVILLE — With spring around the corner, it’s time for the April Coffee House Concert at the East Sangerville Grange.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis Regional YMCA recently completed the annual New Year’s Eve Weight Loss Challenge.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Barb Austin welcomed approximately 30 people to the seventh annual Local High School Art Show, March 23 at the Congregational Church.

    DEXTER — Meredith Roderka, a senior at Dexter Regional High School and the daughter of Michael and Deborah Roderka, has been selected to receive the school’s 2014 Principal’s Award, Principal Stephen Bell announced.

    DEXTER — Because training our young people to understand the world around them is such an important task, the April 4 version of Dexter Dover Area Towns in Transition’s (DDATT) First Friday public discussion will be on “Education: how well are our schools working?” at 7 p.

    DEXTER — The Penquis Beekeepers’ monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 8 at the VFW on Cedar Street at 7 p.

    GREENVILLE — Nomination papers for Greenville’s municipal elections are now ready, according to Town Clerk Roxanne Lizotte.

    SANGERVILLE — The East Sangerville Grange invites the public to come to its second annual “Cultivating Community” event from 9 a.

    MILO — The Maine Department of Transportation is planning to conduct a full inspection of the Pleasant Street bridge deck structure to determine its strength in preparation for tight weight limitations that are expected to follow shortly thereafter.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — For nearly a month SeDoMoCha Middle School students took part in a shared reading experience through the One Book, One Adventure program.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Eighth-grade students in Lindsay Noyes’ science classes at SeDoMoCha Middle School were given the task of getting a seven-gallon trash can lining bag to rise and stay aloft in the air.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DEXTER — The Dexter Planning Board unanimously endorsed a proposal at its March 27 meeting to allow manufacturing facilities in the town’s commercial zones.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — During the month of March the Dover-Foxcroft Budget Advisory Committee has been meeting weekly with department heads and town officials to discuss various aspects of the spending plan for the 2014-15 fiscal year.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     SANGERVILLE — The town of Sangerville will get a new fire truck, Selectman Melissa Randall was re-elected by one vote over challenger Irving McNaughton and voters approved buying a vacant home next to the recreation fields to allow for expansion of the complex.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Recently the Valley Grange, Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District and Piscataquis County University of Maine Cooperative Extension office collaborated to bring agriculture into about 50 elementary classrooms through the annual GrowME program.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DEXTER — The Dexter Police Department is one of several Maine law enforcement agencies participating in the “Drive Sober, Maine” high-visibility, impaired driver campaign.

SeDoMoCha Middle School seventh-graders, from left, Jacob Marsh, Chandler Dow and Caleb Ladd scarf down some pies without using their hands during Pi Day activities on the afternoon of March 21 (Pi Day festivities had been rescheduled from a week prior).