LEWISTON — Jacob Raynes of Dover-Foxcroft was named to the dean’s list at Bates College for the fall/winter semester ending in December 2023.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The construction process to move the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center from the cramped conditions of the Piscataquis County Jail in Dover-Foxcroft into the administrative unit of the sheriff’s office on the first floor of the same larger building is underway.

By Ron Chase Most skiers, ice climbers and mountaineers focus on Chimney Pond with their sights set squarely on Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Unionized workers in the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office are guaranteed larger raises for the next two years under new union contracts.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High School PEOPLE’S CHOICE — The Dexter Regional High School photography class held an exhibition recently at the Abbott Memorial Library in Dexter.

DEXTER — Students from Dexter Regional High School, Ridge View Community School, Piscataquis Community Secondary School, Penquis Valley High School, Foxcroft Academy, and SeDoMoCha Middle School will gather on Friday, March 22 in Dexter for a regional summit focused on leading positive change in their schools and communities.

DEXTER — Before 2023 Dexter and other Maine communities had been able to keep net proceeds from sales of tax-acquired properties that exceeded the amount of taxes owed by the property owner.

GREENVILLE – The Moosehead Marine Museum recently received notification that a $500,000 request for Congressionally Directed Spending was approved.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff Shawn Laatsch has seen five total solar eclipses in his life, but he believes each time seeing the natural phenomenon is just as spectacular as the first.

BREWER — Displaying continued commitment to the health of its patients, colleagues, and community, Northern Light Health has been selected as the newest member of the Health Care Climate Council.

MILO — The National Garden Club Conservation Pledge, “I pledge to protect and conserve the natural resources of the planet Earth and promise to promote education so we may become caretakers of our air, water, forests, land, and wildlife.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli The weather along the swath of eclipse totality from Mexico to Maine is a big unknown.

ABBOT  – Warden K9 Storm and Game Warden Chad Robertson located a missing 71-year-old man in Abbot on the evening of March 16, deep in the woods approximately 1.

By Christopher Bouchard, St.

Northern Light CA Dean and Mayo Hospitals will hold naloxone education and distribution events in Dexter, Dover-Foxcroft, Greenville, and Milo: Tuesday, March 26 6:30 p.

Grade 12, high honors: Zachariah Demmer; honors: Emma Brasier, Emily Easler, Summer Nesbit, Tim Van Der Heijden.

MILO — With the municipal audit awaiting completion, over a dozen articles on the warrant for the 2024 annual meeting were not voted on by the two dozen residents gathered in the Ed Wingler Auditorium upstairs at the Milo Town Hall on the evening of March 11.

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Planning Board for some months has been collecting information on fence ordinances in Maine.