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.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A federal appeals court has denied Maine’s request to stay an injunction against enforcing a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High SchoolESSAY CONTEST WINNERS — The Abbott Memorial Library in Dexter sponsored an essay contest for Dexter Regional High School students for National Library Week April 6-12, with the theme of “Drawn to Your Library: the Right to Read”.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Attention, Dover-Foxcroft and Foxcroft Academy community! On Wednesday, April 30 Foxcroft Academy will host a benefit pasta dinner with all proceeds going to support FA staff members battling cancer.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff BREWER – The Maine Land Use Planning Commission halted the reconstruction of a dam in Indian Purchase Township on April 9 following a residential appeal.

DEXTER — On March 29 10 students from Dexter Regional High School competed against nearly 300 high schoolers from across the state at the annual Maine State Science Fair.

Photo courtesy of Harold J.

AUGUSTA — With winter weather expected to create hazardous travel conditions later today, April 8 in northern and western Maine, Gov.

More than 90 percent of households in the U.

BREWER — Timothy Dentry, president and CEO, has announced his pending retirement from Northern Light Health this calendar year.