By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff Home sales were lower in January as the number of for-sales homes remained low across the state last month, existing home sales released Tuesday by the Maine Association of Realtors showed.

Justina Dill and Wendy Lorigan, teachers at Piscataquis Community Elementary School in Guilford, will be featured presenters at the annual S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Teaching Workshop to be held on Saturday, March 18 at University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast.

SANGERVILLE — A church in Piscataquis County is cooking up traditional dishes from Ukraine and raising funds to support the country as it nears the one-year anniversary of a long and devastating war with Russia.

SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan Savings recently held their annual all employee meeting and recognition dinner.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC MIOSAC Club met on Feb.

By Ron Chase Mosquito Mountain has a very unappealing name.

By Kim Brawn It’s fleeting and precious and “of the essence” in climactic movie scenes.

By Charlie Eichacker, Maine Public Two credit rating agencies have just lowered their assessments of one of Maine’s biggest health care organizations, Northern Light Health, after it ended last year with an operating loss of more than $100 million because of a variety of staffing and operating challenges.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — We are still in the midst of the 2022-23 school year but before you know it, another school year will be gone by.

GREENVILLE — Several weeks before the 2023 Wilderness Sled Dog Race, trail conditions were in poor shape and organizers worried the event would need to be canceled.

Credit union representatives from across Maine came together Feb.

By Aislinn Sarnacki Driving down the wide, snowy Golden Road, I glanced at the blank navigation screen on my car’s dashboard and internally shrugged.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension recently launched a new podcast called Cultivating Resilience, developed in partnership with colleagues in the Cultivemos network, a group of farmers, farm workers and organizations that support them in the Northeast, from Maine to West Virginia.

MONSON — On Saturday, Feb.

GREENVILLE — The first of three zones of miles of free-to-ride mountain bike trails on Little Moose Mountain Public Reserved Land opened this past year thanks to the efforts of the Moosehead Outdoor Alliance — a nonprofit formed with a mission to design and build a premier trail system.

UScellular, the fourth-largest full service wireless carrier in the country, announced “Let’s Find US.

By Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public A Cumberland County judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Northern Light Health against a slew of pharmaceutical companies for their role in Maine’s opioid epidemic.

Observer file photo/Jeannette Hughes CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY WITH SOME ICE FISHING — Then 13-year-old Nathaniel, left, and Brody — who celebrated his ninth birthday on Feb.