GUILFORD — A Guilford man who was stabbed in the neck was transported by LifeFlight to a Bangor hospital on Sunday, according to the Piscataquis County District Attorney’s Office.

PARKMAN – The Parkman Grange is pleased to announce its 2022 Minnie Welts Bridge Scholarship winners.

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Grade eight, high honors – habits of work: Jon Andrescu, Shealyn Bagley, Paige Jandreau, Taylor Michaud, Damiair Miller, Chloe Murdock, Annabelle Peakes, Caleb Pelkey, Casey Swenson, Abagail Trafton, and Bailey Turcotte; honors – habits of work: Ethan Addington, Ryan Hocking, Kallie Stone, and Lexi Wintle; high honors – academic: Jon Andrescu, Shealyn Bagley, Paige Jandreau, Chloe Murdock, Caleb Pelkey, Kallie Stone, and Baylee Turcotte; honors – academic: Abagail Trafton.

Grade eight, high honors: Amara Driscoll and Paeton Mitchell; honors: Liam Atkinson, Josie Bishop, Vegas Carey, Sean Chenkin, Michael Coburn, Lillian Hatt, Byron Severance, Connor Smith, Joshua Stineford, Cole Watts, and Gage Yenchochic.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A longtime Bangor attorney known for his work with municipalities in northern and Down East Maine has been appointed to serve as Penobscot County’s probate court judge for the rest of the year.

Grade 12, highest honors: Clyde Day, Nathan Fernald, Miles Gadwah and Cole Smith; high honors: Bradley Crane, Abey Givens, Ricky Goodell, Jr.

Grade 12, high honors: Grady Atkinson, Hope Lovell, Emily McKinnon, Jonathan Paquette, and Mikal Sickler; honors: April Badger, Benjamin Bouley, Angela Bryden, Justin Chambers, Trinity Moulton-Moors, Maxwell Osgood, Alvin Robshaw, and Desirea Stanley.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff He was a beloved institution at Piscataquis Community High School in Guilford.

More than $45,000 in Maine Community Foundation grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Piscataquis County.

Grade 12, high honors: Alan Abolnik Ribe, Jasmine Baravaglio Alves, Filip Brkic, Grace Carlson, Aine Casey, Rebekah Demers, Cheyanne Desautell, Anh Alice Doan, Pierce Fagan, Daisy Foster, Kasey Howell, Joshua Michael Lemanski, Alicia London, Kaitlyn Lord, Jasper Makowski, Kate Neville, Nguyen Nhat Leo Nguyen, Anastasia Peirce, Connor Plante, Klara Puskeilerova, Isabel Qualey, Aleshia Raymond, Jacob Reed, Ruby Rideout, Bryson Ross, Makenzie Sands, Austin Seavey, and Meghan Spooner; honors: Nathanael Brown, Marshall  Burt, Carolina Caruzo Gomes dos Santos,  Nadia Chokki, Alexis Cole, Gabriel Coutinho Cavalini, Rodrigo Diaz Arrigunaga, Emily Fuller, Cadence Gil, Emily Harmon-Weeks, James Jankunas, Benjamin Johnston, Dameon Lyford, Reece McCarty, Olivia McCorrison, Carter Merrill, Kylie Merritt, Anh Ngoc Tu Nguyen, Cameron Parlee, Anh Julia Phan, Maxwell Rosso, Max Schnetzer, Anthony Smith, Corbin Toner,  Joseph Wertz, and Seojin Sarah Yoo.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Hearing the haunting call of a common loon echoing across the water can be exhilarating.

Grade 12, highest honors: Anthony Germano and Ruth Griffith; high honors: Hannah Dow, Taylor Folsom, and Hailee Hartford; honors: Daniel Adams, Grace Buehne, Kaitlyn Cupero, Ariana Fanjoy, Rylee Fillmore, Sarah Gray, Trevor Hathorn, Sydney Hutchins, MacKenzie Kain, Elizabeth Kendall, Gianna Kopf, Alexandria Maguire, Christina Maguire, Benjamin Martin, Jessie Mayberry, Austin McLaughlin, Shania Milano, Aiden Miller, Aliyah Ouellette, and Courtney Quimby.

The Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft has announced that they are holding a series of free theater workshops for older adults in Greenville and Dover-Foxcroft.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff The former police chief of the Dover-Foxcroft police force pleaded guilty to a charge of domestic violence on Thursday, July 7.

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By Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor The availability of criminal defense attorneys is at an all-time low in Maine for defendants who cannot afford to hire their own attorney.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County’s sheriff plans to hire a person with medical training to distribute medications to jail inmates — a first for a department that has used corrections officers to perform the task until now.