The Appalachian Mountain Club launched See the Dark, a public awareness program to highlight the importance of the night sky and elevate understanding of the impact of light pollution.

By David Marino Jr.

GREENVILLE — Sheridan Construction Corp.

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to appoint  Leesah Patt as its new Disadvantaged Business Services specialist.

Photos courtesy of April Taylor READING SPACE – A library for children in the after school program at the Piscataquis Regional YMCA in Dover-Foxcroft opened on Sept.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff One of the two Maine officeholders whose names were on leaked membership rolls of a far-right group tied to the Capitol riots of Jan.

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The chair of Piscataquis County’s commissioners on Tuesday questioned why the county did more than $11,000 in COVID-19 testing at the jail months ago.

GREENVILLE — A company plans to install a biochar manufacturing line at the shuttered Greenville Steam Co.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — To cope with a shortage that is affecting area districts as well as school units across the state and country, a pair of substitute teachers at the SeDoMoCha School have worked to launch a substitute training program for RSU 68.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff Four people were arrested in Ellsworth last Thursday after nearly 4 pounds of fentanyl was recovered in a drug bust spanning Hancock and Somerset counties.

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to appoint Madeline Bradfield to the newly created role of director of youth services.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff This week’s question comes to us from me, Emily Burnham, a lifelong Mainer and person with very strong opinions about pizza.

PORTLAND & ELLSWORTH — Adult learners returning to school may be eligible for scholarships from the Maine Community Foundation.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — As part of our 100th anniversary celebration of the marriage of Dover and Foxcroft, we had planned on a historic walking tour along Main Street – visiting about 85 properties including their history and their owners.

BROWNVILLE — If you’ve driven through Brownville recently, you must have seen the covered signs at the ends of each of the town’s three bridges.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff At the Port of Saint John in New Brunswick, 70 miles east of the Maine border, there’s been a flurry of change recently, and it’s been aggressively expanded to handle more vessels looking to deliver shipments to the East Coast.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff As more freight trains travel across Maine between northern Washington County and northern Somerset County, rural towns along the route have had to balance their hopes for improving their local economies with logistical challenges presented by the increased rail traffic.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre will be restarting its free after school program for high school students on Sept.