By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff For some people, a pond is not fully a pond unless it has fish in it.

AUGUSTA — Twenty one Maine community college students have been named to the All-Maine Academic Team in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement, leadership and service.

Even though it was a difficult year for fundraising in 2020, Maine Highlands Federal Credit  was able to raise over $17,000 for the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – Charley Bradford, a graduate of Thomas College, has begun to see adults who are eligible to receive community integration (adult case management) services at Community Health and Counseling Services.

DEXTER — When SAD 46 grades 6-12 students at the Ridge View Community School and Dexter Regional High School return from April vacation on Monday, April 26, they will attend classes in-person five days a week instead of the two cohorts on different days.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff For nearly two decades, commercial wind farms have been touted in Maine as a way to generate electricity without pollution, and as a way rural locales in Maine can generate revenue for themselves by hosting turbines worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

BANGOR/DOVER-FOXCROFT — Partners for Peace will host their 2021 annual meeting from 3:30 to 4:30 p.

 Grade 6-8 students to attend four days in-person after April vacation DOVER-FOXCROFT — RSU 68 officials are looking at a proposed 2021-22 budget totaling $12,021,863.

PITTSFIELD — In April of 2020 Puritan Medical Products, one of two major manufacturers of COVID-19 testing swabs, reached out to Cianbro in desperate need of expanding from their Guilford facility to meet the ever-growing demand for testing swabs.

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, businesses across the region have been navigating new methods of operation.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff PORTLAND — A Portland man who has sued the city believes former Gov.

By David Marino Jr.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A public hearing on tax increment financing for the project to develop a ski resort with year-round attractions on 1,700 acres overlooking Moosehead Lake in the unorganized territory outside of Greenville will be part of the next regular Piscataquis County Commissioners meeting at 8:30 a.

By David Marino Jr.

WASHINGTON, D.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Register and join us for a morning bird walk on Sunday, May 2, as we explore springtime birds at the Law Farm.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine is seeing a record of at least 88,000 new first doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week as the supply to retail pharmacies through a federal program jumped nearly 50 percent with the addition of independent pharmacies.

By Jessica Potila, St.