Applications are currently being accepted for the Maine Community Foundation’s Patriot Education Scholarship Fund.

Private ponds that are stocked with trout provide multiple benefits for landowners and their families.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High School STUDENTS OF THE MONTH — Dexter Regional High School is pleased to announce the March Students of the Month as selected by the faculty and staff for being exemplary students.

With Earth Day approaching, consumers may be looking for ways to improve their environmental impact.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Northern Light Health lost $156 million in 2024, according to its annual report released April 15.

BREWER — Northern Light Health is excited to release our 2024 annual report.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff A transgender woman from Monson will compete in the Miss Maine USA pageant next month, marking the first time an openly transgender woman will vie for the title.

BANGOR — The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, has awarded Penquis a $20,000 grant to support its commitment to strengthening communities.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — On the night of April 18, 1775, two lanterns were hung in the tower of Boston’s Old North Church as a signal to Paul Revere, across the river in Charlestown, that the British regulars were moving “by sea” across the Back Bay to Cambridge in order to begin their march to seize powder and munitions in Concord.

Grade eight, high honors: Alexis Ames, Ella Annis, Alexis Arcaro, Lauren Caruso, Tiffany Chan, Elizabeth Deitz, Weston Donahue, Ayla Furman, Michael Kinney, Cooper Knepp, Layla Lanthier, Ryan McGary, Hunter McKusick-Slama, Olvia Mishio, Adalynn Rayfield, Carey Sullivan, Owen White; honors: Gabriel Chambers, Emma Crossman, Alex Hanson, Jeremii Hutchinson-Mallory, Kloey Merrill, Elodie Vail, Elsa Vandermast, Donovan Williams.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The 29th Annual Variety Show to support Pine Tree Hospice goes on stage at the Center Theater in Dover-Foxcroft at 1 p.

By Emmett Gartner, The Maine Monitor I’ve spent much of the past year reporting on the uncertain futures that await Maine dams.

GUILFORD — Weather in Maine can vary with severe conditions possible.

GUILFORD — The SAD 4 School Board approved a proposed $9,752,463 budget for the 2025-26 academic year during an April 8 meeting at Piscataquis Community Elementary School.

With Earth Day approaching, consumers may be looking for ways to improve their environmental impact.

What happens if you can no longer speak for yourself and lose the ability to express your healthcare wishes? If you have an advance directive, your family and caregivers will know what care you want, or may not want, on your terms, and it will be easier for a loved one to make decisions for you.

The Foxcroft Academy Key Club attended the 2025 New England District Key Club Convention in Portland from April 4-6.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Cori Cantrell and her two children have used MaineCare for several years, relying on it for everything from surgeries to ear infections or stitches after a basketball hoop fell on one youngster’s head.