By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff For the last month, guides, outfitters and hunters have been placing bait in preparation for the 2023 bear season.

GUILFORD — SAD 4/RSU 80 schools are participating in Special Provision II.

More than $298,000 in Maine Community Foundation grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects across the state.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Aug.

Grant will fund software and technology upgrades to support transportation services Penquis and Kennebec Valley Community Action Program are receiving $650,462 from the Maine Department of Transportation to improve transportation services across four counties.

Mary Bromiley AM: Harmony PM: Harmony Bus #47 Ed Conroy   AM: Bangor Road to Bryant Road, Range Road, Atkinson, East Dover Road, Vaughn Street, Webber Hardware, SeDoMoCha, Foxcroft Academy.

Dexter: BUS 3  ED LANGLAIS 6:50  MAIN ST 6:52 RIPLEY RD SKIMMER LANE 6:55 MCFARLAND TRAILER COMPLEX 6:57 RR AVE 7:00 CEDAR 7:10 WATER ST 7:12 LIBERTY/FAYE COURT 7:15 BROOKS TIRE LINE RD (pm) 7:20 AIRPORT RD     7:30 JENNINGS HILL RD   RV 7:40 ST.

ORONO — Gov.

BROWNVILLE — The Brownville Junction High School Alumni held its annual meeting on Friday, Aug.

ORONO — About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that pushed arctic plant life across the northern hemisphere receded and left some behind on mountain tops in the Northeastern U.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The last few weeks of summer vacation is a vulnerable time for children and families who experience food insecurity.

GREENVILLE — At an Aug.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff There’s a long history in Maine of larger than life outdoorsmen and women, like Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby, a sportswriter who in 1897 became the first registered Maine guide; Albert “Jigger” Johnson, a colorful western Maine lumberjack; Wilmot “Wiggie” Robinson, a master Maine guide from the Katahdin region; and Bud Leavitt, longtime outdoors writer for the Bangor Daily News.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Select Board signed the 2023-24 tax commitment during a meeting on Monday, Aug.

CAMDEN –  The Board of Directors of Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ: CAC) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Camden National Bank (together, “Camden National” or the “Bank”), announced the appointment of Simon Griffiths, 50, as the successor to current President and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Dufour, 63, effective Dec.

By Valerie Royzman, Staff Writer The group that maintains Big Moose Mountain in Greenville is clearing four trails that people last skied nearly two decades ago.

File photo courtesy of SviguephotographyCYCL-A-THON — The third annual Cycl-a-thon will start at 9:30 a.

By Aislinn Sarnacki As the school year quickly approaches, it’s important to grab ahold of these last days of summer and create sun-filled memories that will last through the cold months ahead.