DEXTER — Ever wonder who you should assign to handle your medical and financial affairs if, some day, you become incapacitated? Julie Ann Mallett, senior staff attorney with Legal Services for the Elderly, will be guest speaker at Dexter Age Friendly’s Tea Talks on Thursday, Feb.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff A version of this story was originally published in February 2023.

GREENVILLE — On Saturday, Feb.

UScellular invested more than $19 million in its Maine network in 2023.

GUILFORD — Stephanie Hewitt of Guilford has been awarded as a ME/NH/MASS Aflac Agent of Care.

BANGOR — The U.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff With the quality and thickness of ice on Maine’s lakes and ponds being unreliable this year, it’s a good idea to be prepared for the worst when you go ice fishing.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The third annual Piscataquis Radar Runs start at 10 a.

By Zara Norman, Bangor Daily News Staff Property values declined last year in many rural Maine towns and some surprising ones, including Cape Elizabeth and Carrabassett Valley, according to housing data from Zillow.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff President Joe Biden has declared the wind storm that lashed Maine in December a major disaster.

This secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine’s congressional delegation has renewed its calls for the U.

BREWER — Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Although there is plenty of safe ice in Maine, people need to be careful in some areas, especially on the larger and deeper lakes, according to a Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife spokesman on Monday.

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GUILFORD — For two decades the town of Guilford has celebrated the middle of summer with the Piscataquis River Festival on the last Saturday of July.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — More than a decade and a half has passed since the Mayo Mill Dam on the Piscataquis River in downtown Dover-Foxcroft has produced energy.

By Kim Brawn “There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.