GUILFORD — Piscataquis Community Elementary School Principal Anita Wright has been named as Maine’s National Association of Elementary School Principals National Distinguished Principal of the Year for 2023.

PARKMAN — The Parkman Grange is announcing plans to award 2023 Minnie Welts Bridge Memorial Scholarships to one or more deserving SAD 4 residents continuing their education beyond high school.

In honor of their 50-year history, Partners for Peace, Maine’s first domestic violence resource center, is collecting 50 stories from people affected by domestic abuse to be highlighted in October.

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BANGOR — Northern Light Health is proud to support organ, eye, and tissue donation.

AUGUSTA — Mainers have responded to the Maine Connectivity Authority’s broadband survey by the thousands, but five counties are lagging behind: Androscoggin, Franklin, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Sagadahoc.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County’s commissioners agreed during a meeting Tuesday to seek bids for a roof repair project for the sheriff’s office patrol building in Guilford.

GUILFORD — When students come together to network and share ideas about mental health, substance use, and overall well being, schools and communities benefit.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — In the last few years, Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District’s Tree & Plant Sale has evolved, quite significantly.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Earlier this year Piscataquis County invited students of all ages to design a logo or seal that celebrates the region’s heritage and beauty, which will be used on documents, online, and elsewhere.

BREWER — Northern Light Health is proud to serve Maine’s increasingly diverse residents and visitors.

BREWER — Bangor resident Beverly Fowler keeps track of her congestive heart failure every day through a remote monitoring device that was surgically implanted.

Grade 12, highest honors: Emma Calnan, Samantha Goodwin, Kendall Kimball, and Norah MacMahon; high honors: Gabby Clark, Cadence Clukey, Maximilian Daehn, Melissa Demmer, Jenifer Lonergan, Alexandria Maguire, Abbey Ricker, Katelynn White, Meriel Willey, and Anna Zimmerman; honors: Sydney Grenier, Christina Maguire, Saia Miles, Angelique Pelkey, Maria Pinheiro Velame, Brylee Ricker, Molly Sipple, Gabe Talbot, and Gracie Talbot.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff So, you’re new to Maine and live in a municipality that has an annual town meeting sometime between March 1 and June 30.

Supply chain problems are causing some of Maine’s emergency management agencies to wait months longer than expected for equipment — in some cases, for life-saving tools.

Justina Dill and Wendy Lorigan, teachers at Piscataquis Community Elementary School in Guilford, will be featured presenters at the annual S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Teaching Workshop to be held on Saturday, March 18 at University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast.

SANGERVILLE — A church in Piscataquis County is cooking up traditional dishes from Ukraine and raising funds to support the country as it nears the one-year anniversary of a long and devastating war with Russia.

By Charlie Eichacker, Maine Public Two credit rating agencies have just lowered their assessments of one of Maine’s biggest health care organizations, Northern Light Health, after it ended last year with an operating loss of more than $100 million because of a variety of staffing and operating challenges.