By Kim Brawn Are you tired of paying for endless streaming channels? A la carte has become mucho dinero! Entertainment costs big bucks these days, so finding the best deals is essential.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Showers were in the forecast for the afternoon, but that didn’t stop 6,000 people from coming to Dover-Foxcroft to get their whoopie pies during the annual Maine Whoopie Pie Festival on Saturday, June 24.

WATERVILLE — Thomas College hosted Class of 2023 graduates and their guests on Saturday, May 13 in the Alfond Athletic Center at Thomas College in Waterville.

PORTLAND – The end of expanded food assistance benefits, coupled with rising food costs, has created an enormous challenge for Mainers trying to put food on the table.

GREENVILLE — Earlier this year more than $1.

NEWPORT — Darling’s Auto Group acquires Hartley’s Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Newport.

MILO — A proposed 2023-24 SAD 41 budget totaling $11,048,816 was approved during the annual district budget meeting in the Walter “Eddie” Oakes Gymnasium at the Penquis Valley School on June 21.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine home sales remained lower than a year ago as buyers continued to face a low for-sale inventory across the state.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine still has the oldest population in the nation.

ABILENE, Texas — Daniel West of Rockwood has been named to the spring 2023 dean’s honor roll at Abilene Christian University.

FORT KENT — On May 5 more than 170 University of Maine at Fort Kent nursing students graduated from the program, with 28 attending the 39th annual UMFK Nurse Pinning Ceremony at the Sports Center on the UMFK campus.

The local Masonic Lodge in Dexter presented a generous donation, with the help of the Widows Sons Masonic Motorcycle Riders Association and the Grand Lodge of Maine, that would directly affect students at the Tri-County Technical Center.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County officials plan to alleviate internet issues at the county campus on East Main Street with a cabling upgrade.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff The head of the state’s inland fisheries and hatcheries on Tuesday rolled out several proposed fisheries rules changes for 2024 during the regular meeting of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Advisory Council in Augusta.

The Piscataquis County Democrats continue their mission of helping those struggling with food insecurity.

GUILFORD — Piscataquis Community Elementary School sixth-graders answered their principal’s challenge to make a difference globally.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — UScellular has started upgrades on four towers to bring 5G in-home Internet to Somerset and Piscataquis County residents as part of the Maine Connectivity Authority’s Jumpstart Connectivity Initiative (Jumpstart).

A Dexter woman was hospitalized after rear-ending a cement truck in a Monday morning crash in Newburgh.