By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GREENVILLE — The Greenville Board of Selectmen voted Thursday night to hire John Simko as the new town manager, returning him to a position he held from 2000 to 2010.

    DEXTER — The Sandy River Ramblers will bring their uniquely Maine bluegrass show to the Wayside Theatre/Grange on Saturday, Aug.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — More than 200 Foxcroft Academy alumni and friends disregarded stormy weather and gathered in the FA gymnasium on Aug.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Providing youth with opportunities to continue to learn and engage in meaningful activities at the end of the school day can boost their academic success.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Retired Educators held a picnic basket raffle at Homecoming to raise money for the Esther Pennington Piscataquis County Retired Educators Scholarship.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County Retired Educators working with the Maine Educators Association (Retired) donated $100 in school supplies to the Angel Project at Charlotte White Center as a Caring Community Project.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Maine Drug Enforcement Agents arrested and charged 33-year-old Joel Frigon of Dover-Foxcroft with trafficking in methamphetamine on Aug.

    DEXTER — When Dexter police went to a Pleasant Street home for a bail check on Aug.

WELCOME BACK Dexter Police Chief Kevin Wintle (left) welcomes back Allen Emerson as a full-time officer.

    DEXTER — A two-car crash on Route 7 in Dexter claimed the life of a 72-year-old Dover-Foxcroft man on Aug.

HAMMING IT UP Observer photo/Jeannette Hughes A nice crowd turned up for the Piscataquis Amateur Radio Club’s annual Hamfest at the American Legion Hall in Milo on Aug.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Board of Trustees of Mayo Regional Hospital has accepted the resignation of Edward J.

    GREENVILLE — Imagine an attractive, articulate, and eternally young woman; a woman so fearless that she served as a stunt double in filming the most perilous scenes of many silent screen stars, including Gloria Swanson and Pearl White.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The 2013 annual meeting of the Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce was called to order by Chamber President Sherry French on June 20 the conference room at Foxcroft Academy.

NEW OFFICER Paco, an 8-month-old Mali, recently joined the Dover-Foxcroft Police Department as a tracking and drug detection canine.

    GUILFORD — The Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department, working with Maine State Police and the Dover-Foxcroft Police Department, are investigating a shooting, beating and alleged dog attack that sent four residents of Guilford to Mayo Regional Hospital Monday night.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GUILFORD — Plans for a new retail store in Guilford took another step forward at last week’s Board of Selectmen’s meeting.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DEXTER — Although the annual budget meeting drew a sizeable crowd to the Dexter council chambers Thursday night, there was virtually no debate and only two questions came up about the $3.