DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC Miosac Club met Nov.

Complex emotions among middle-schoolers are nothing new, but the sadness and hopelessness of students in two of Maine’s poorest counties prior to the COVID-19 pandemic have health officials and youth advocates concerned.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A longtime Penobscot County commissioner was unseated Tuesday, Nov.

By Samantha Hogan, Maine Monitor Maine’s top judge on Wednesday said the state’s justice system is failing people in the criminal and civil courts and implored lawyers to assist in the defense of the state’s poor.

BANGOR — Rape Response Services, a Penquis subsidiary, will be having a dessert auction on Friday, Nov.

MILO — The Milo Water District was fined $46,000 and will have to take corrective actions after the Maine Department of Environmental Protection discovered a number of discharge-related violations at its wastewater treatment facility.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Clayton Taylor stepped onto a U.

MILO — A committee made up of people from SAD 41 school board, select boards from three district towns and residents representing Brownville, LaGrange and Milo will examine the number of directors for SAD 41 via an apportionment committee.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Economic Development Council is pleased to announce its choice for the 2022 Warren “Pete” Myrick Award, William “Bill” Thompson of Guilford.

A Superior Court justice has ordered Eastern Maine Railway to pay more than $9,000 in restitution to five Piscataquis County towns whose firefighters responded to fires beside the railroad tracks in May.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Home fires, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires are becoming more frequent and can be devastating to our loved ones, homes and communities.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High School STUDENTS OF THE MONTH — Dexter Regional High School is pleased to announce the October Students of the Month as selected by the faculty and staff for being exemplary students.

SANGERVILLE — Northern Light Primary Care, Sangerville welcomes Shawn Marie Higgins, DO, to its provider team.

HOUSE DISTRICT 30 Representing Abbot, Beaver Cove, Bowerbank,  Greenville, Guilford, Monson, Parkman,  Sangerville, Sebec, Shirley, Willimantic  plus the unorganized territories of Blanchard Township, Northeast Piscataquis  Barnard and Elliottsville Townships)  and Northwest Piscataquis James White, R-Guilford 2,501 W.

By David Marino Jr.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Veterans Day on Friday, Nov.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff Gov.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A Garland man has been arrested on federal charges out of New York alleging that he was part of a conspiracy to buy guns in Maine and send them to the Dominican Republic.