Just in time for National Hunger Awareness Month, Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger is launching a 30-day, $100,000 challenge beginning June 1 to raise money for Good Shepherd Food Bank, local community food pantries, and meal sites.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – Frequent travel to Bangor for class can be a barrier to earning a nursing degree.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — From June 1-6 Pine Tree Hospice will hold its second bottle drive.

GUILFORD — A proposed 2022-23 SAD 4 budget totaling $7,772,120 was approved May 25 during the annual district budget meeting held in the Piscataquis Community Elementary School cafeteria.

Absentee ballots are now available ahead of a June 14 election in which Mainers can vote in primary elections for a range of state and local offices as well as local ballot questions.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff By the end of 2022, Maine may be the only state that does not allow some form of Sunday hunting.

The Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft announced that it is looking for area actors between the ages of 14 and 19 to take part in their 2022 Summer Travelling Show.

Rural areas centered around the forest industry have faced uncertain economic times.

GUILFORD — Piscataquis Community Elementary School students will demonstrate their skills as classes, groups, and individuals using their voices, instruments, and movement on two separate nights as we approach the end of the school year.

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This story is part of Maine Public’s “Climate Driven: A deep dive into Maine’s response, one county at a time” series.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A project to relocate Piscataquis County’s police and fire dispatch center will mean repair work on a portion of the building’s exterior that will cost several thousand dollars extra, county commissioners were told Tuesday.

Grade 12, highest honors: Anthony Germano, Ruth Griffith, Hailee Hartford, Elizabeth Kendall, Christina Maguire, and Benjamin Martin; high honors: Kaitlyn Cupero, Hannah Dow, Kayden Gilbert, Trevor Hathorn, Sydney Hutchins, Alexandria Maguire, Jessie Mayberry, and Aliyah Ouellette, and Eden Samuel; honors: Daniel Adams, Grace Buehne, Matthew Chadbourne, Ariana Fanjoy, Rylee Fillmore, Brandon Fleming, MacKenzie Kain, Gianna Kopf, Aiden Miller, and Alexander Shedd.

WATERVILLE — Thomas College hosted Class of 2022 graduates and their guests Saturday, May 14 in the Alfond Athletic Center.

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to name Dr.

Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District is celebrating our eighth year of offering Teen Wilderness Expedition — a program designed for youth ages 12-16 to experience the outdoors and deepen their connection to and understanding of natural resources through recreation and exploration.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County residents haven’t had regular access to state services since 2007, when a health services office in Dover-Foxcroft shuttered.