By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff The chairperson of the Penobscot County commissioners voted to hire a lobbyist he personally worked with as recently as last year.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Officials in RSU 68 are working on a 2023-24 budget that currently totals nearly $13.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — With about $2.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A three-unit apartment building and attached barn in Dover-Foxcroft were destroyed in a blaze Tuesday, and the town’s fire chief credited nearby contractors with saving the lives of a few residents.

ANNANDALE, Minnesota — Malco Products, SBC, one of the nation’s leading solution developers and manufacturers of a variety of high-quality tools for the building trades, announced the winners of its first-ever Building Exterior Trade-Pro of the Year Award program.

WILLIAMSBURG — Register and join us for a morning bird walk on Saturday, May 20 as we explore springtime birds at the Williamsburg Forest, formerly known as the Demonstration Forest, in Williamsburg! The Piscataquis County Soil & Water Conservation District will be co-hosting with Forest Society of Maine Conservation Specialist Kristin Peet, experienced birder Shane Barker and Maine Audubon Society’s birder Nick Lund.

By Ron Chase On the third day of our six-day Baxter State Park expedition, eight of us awoke in the midst of a stormy Northeaster.

By Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News Staff After many doctors closed their offices to patient visits earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, Maine libraries became critical health care hubs.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Calvin Klopp of Gray knows that ice fishing requires skill and experience, but it never hurts to have a little luck on your side.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County has hired a lobbyist to work behind the scenes at the State House to push for state funding of a new jail and more deputies — services usually primarily funded by county governments — highlighting the challenges that the county views as most dire.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Music! ance! Talent! Pine Tree Hospice’s 27th annual Variety Show is coming up! Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 22 at 2 pm at the Center Theatre.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The SeDoMoCha School recognized the March Students in the Spotlight at a recent assembly.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff After 54 years in operation, an Orono-based search and rescue nonprofit organization will close at the end of November due its dwindling and aging membership.

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

GREENVILLE — With spring right around the corner, Northern Light CA Dean Hospital is celebrating a big milestone in its modernization project: the new ambulance and main hospital buildings are now weather tight.

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.

By Ron Chase A winter expedition into Baxter State Park begins months in advance.

By Kim Brawn DOVER-FOXCROFT — Imagine if your favorite movie characters were replaced by Peeps (the marshmallow candy, not your BFFs!).