By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The commissioners voted unanimously to hold a special meeting next week to award a contract for ditching and culvert replacement along a 1.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     BROWNVILLE — The town of Brownville will be participating in a value added service (VAS) inventory program for its water and sewer departments with Team EJP (Everett J.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DEXTER — Gerry Marshall has become so frustrated with his efforts to develop his 42-acre Abbott Hill property that he’s put it up for sale, taken legal action against the town of Dexter and displayed four signs located in two locations stating his displeasure with the town manager and former code enforcement officer.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Thanks to the generosity of the Valley Grange, a tradition has been in place for a number of years in which grade 3 students in RSU 68 and SAD 4 and 41 each receive a dictionary through the Words for Thirds Dictionary Project.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy honored the Class of 2013’s outstanding scholars at its annual Rose Award ceremony on the afternoon of May 8.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Maine’s 2013 4-H Paper Clover Campaign in partnership with Tractor Supply Company (TSC) will be running through May 19, part of a nationwide in-store fundraiser that benefits state and local 4-H programming in each of the communities where a TSC or Del’s Farm and Feed Supply store is located.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Wednesday, May 22 at 6:30 p.

    GREENVILLE — The town of Greenville has received a $34,209 grant from the Recreational Trails Program administered by the Division of Parks and Public Lands of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to develop a snowmobile and ATV trail linking the Snowmobile Club on Scammon Road to the Prong Pond Trailhead in Beaver Cove.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer    DOVER-FOXCROFT — A collaboration between Diane Robinson’s grade 6 class and students of third-grade teacher Jessica Dunton has resulted in a collection of writings and illustrations making up “The SeDoMoCha Animal Book,” which is scheduled to be available through Amazon.

    SANGERVILLE VANDALISM — Two Sangerville properties have been either broken into or vandalized several times in the past year.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer    DOVER-FOXCROFT — SeDoMoCha Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders had the opportunity to hear from over two dozen speakers, who told them about what they do for a living and how they arrived to where they are from their school days during Career Day on May 6.

    PERFORMING FOR FUEL ASSISTANCE — The Maine Highlands Classical Trio will perform at the Congregational Church in Dover-Foxcroft on Friday, May 17 at 7 p.

    Observer photo/Bill Pearson CHEERING CELEBRATION — The Dexter Regional High School cheerleading team was represented, from left, by Coach Kacie Ladd, Aaliyah Williams, Emmitt Ross and Phoebe Phillips during a special presentation on May 9 by the Dexter Town Council which recognized the squad for winning the 2013 State and Eastern Maine Class C cheerleading championships.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer    GUILFORD — “Mr.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff WriterMILO — The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) Main Street Safe Streets project will be going out to bid May 15 following a special town meeting on May 7.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer    DOVER-FOXCROFT — In recent weeks passersby have seen the construction vehicles and heard the clanging and banging as crews have been working on the clean-up phase on the Riverfront Redevelopment project at the former Moosehead Manufacturing site — which will become a mixed use property on the Piscataquis River through Arnold Development of Kansas City, Mo.

  BROWNVILLE — A yearly tax club has been established for the payment of property taxes, following a special town meeting on May 7 at the BJHS Alumni Hall.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Saturday, May 18 at 7 p.