BANGOR — The Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has granted over $740,000 in funding to support Penquis’ Substance Affected Youth Program for the next three years.

GUILFORD – A team of Valley Granger members led by Walter Boomsma is delivering nearly 250 dictionaries to local area schools during the next several weeks.

GUILFORD — Friends of Community Fitness had a record year for the fourth annual Cycl-a-thon on Saturday, Oct.

Imagine someone has taken a picture of your child without them knowing and posted it online.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine has routinely led or nearly led the nation in voter turnout in recent elections, but it has work to do when it comes to registering teen voters.

Piscataquis Observer staff picked up a half dozen awards among the state’s smaller weekly publications division from the Maine Press Association in the 2024 MPA Better Newspaper Contest, announced on Oct.

By Lindsay Putnam, Bangor Daily News Staff The Bangor Daily News won the top honor of Maine’s best daily newspaper and reporter Sawyer Loftus was named the state’s journalist of the year at the Maine Press Association’s annual conference Saturday, Oct.

By Charles Eichacker, Bangor Daily News Staff A leadership shakeup that saw three high-level executives leave their jobs at Northern Light Health last week is the latest example of how the hospital system is struggling to recover from the downward financial spiral it’s been in for the last few years.

Camden National Bank is proud to announce a significant donation of school supplies collected by employees and customers from all 57 banking centers to Ruth’s Reusable Resources, a local nonprofit dedicated to bridging the gap between business and education by transferring unwanted supplies to children and their teachers.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff All housekeeping and cafeteria positions at Northern Light Health are being outsourced to a third-party company, employees learned Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Nov.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff A vice president of Northern Light Health is the latest executive to leave the health care system amid a series of recent leadership changes.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Another Northern Light Health hospital president resigned on Oct.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — For a number of years the Dover-Foxcroft municipal budget has included funding for the Piscataquis Regional YMCA.

The Forest Society of Maine, America’s seventh-largest non-governmental conservation organization based on acres conserved, has selected Christopher Beichner as its next president/CEO.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff BROWNVILLE — Two people were arrested Tuesday after police executed a search warrant in Brownville.

Standing on the summit, surrounded by jagged hunks of rock, I looked out over a seemingly endless forest of crimson, gold and burnt orange foliage.

On Tuesday, Nov.