DOVER-FOXCROFT — USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is celebrating National Volunteer Week April 6-13 by thanking and honoring its Earth Team volunteers for their service to conservation.

    GREENVILLE — The Appalachian Mountain Club’s (AMC) Maine Woods Initiative is marking record numbers of visitors, acres of land conservation and local economic stimulus as it now concludes its New Markets Tax Credits investment cycle, managed by CEI Capital Management, LLC.

    DEXTER — The HJ Crosby Community Band of Dexter will perform on April 13, at the Dexter Town Hall at 2 p.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — People in Piscataquis County looking for help managing their finances will find it on Saturday, April 12 during the Tri-County Disability Asset Network’s first annual Stretch Your Dollar Day event in Dover-Foxcroft.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC/Miosac Club met April 1 at Thayer Parkway with 12 members present.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre announces The Slightly Off-Center Players One Act Festival will be held on Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12 at 7 p.

    GREENVILLE — The Shaw Public Library recently received a $200 grant from The Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust of the Maine Community Foundation to support the purchase of themed reading materials for the “Fizz,Boom,Read!” summer program.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — For students’ performances on the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) test earlier in the year, the SeDoMoCha Middle School earned the distinction of being a High Progress Reward School for the first time.

    DEXTER — Tri-County Technical Center held its induction ceremony for students becoming members of the National Technical Honor Society on March 27.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — When Tanya Swain first went to work for the Western Mountains Alliance (WMA) in Farmington nine years ago, one of her goals was to get more local food into the schools.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DEXTER — The Dexter Town Council will meet Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.

    DEXTER — A windy frigid night didn’t deter loyal Wayside Grangers from trekking to the Abbott Memorial Library for a meeting to formulate plans for the upcoming season for concerts and Grange suppers beginning in April.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Saturday, April 26, at 9 a.

 LEGION HUMANITARIAN AWARD Frank E.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Tapping the multi-million dollar Maine tourism industry is a challenge, especially for inland areas like Piscataquis County.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GREENVILLE — After two consecutive meetings of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission were postponed due to bad weather in March, a decision won’t be made on the C&E Real Estate rezoning request in Big Moose Township until May.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Once again in 2014 events throughout April at and involving the SeDoMoCha School will help promote Autism Awareness Month.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Late last month SeDoMoCha Middle School sixth-grader Steffi Victoria put her spelling abilities to the test with the state’s best at the annual Maine State Spelling Bee on March 22 at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.