FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington proudly celebrated a festive, in-person  Commencement ceremony May 7 for the Class of 2022.

District budget meeting set for June 6 MILO – A proposed 2022-23 SAD 41 budget totaling $10,839,851 was approved by the school board during a meeting at the Penquis Valley School on May 4.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff The reward for information in last month’s killing of a black bear in LaGrange has been upped to $4,000.

Tired of dealing with poor internet connectivity, town officials and residents in Piscataquis and Penobscot counties formed their own coalition to bring broadband to their regions.

SKOWHEGAN – Skowhegan Savings held its 152nd Annual Meeting of the Corporators announcing that the bank had historic financial performance in 2021.

GREENVILLE — Construction has begun on a new $23.

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation was awarded $600,000 to provide workforce development services to young people and businesses in Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Washington counties.

DEXTER — Our Lady’s Kitchen will reopen on Sunday, May 15, for its free Sunday “dinner” that is served Sundays at noon in the parish hall of St.

DEXTER – Once again Wayside Grange & Theatre has received a generous donation from McKusick Petroleum in Dover-Foxcroft for 2022 to help us continue our projects.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — When a minor earthquake shook Sebec more than a week ago, Piscataquis County’s Emergency Management Agency director couldn’t get online to notify and update residents because of the spotty internet where she lives.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – On Tuesday Foxcroft Academy held a special ceremony to announce the Class of 2022 outstanding scholars at its annual Rose Award ceremony.

The Piscataquis County Economic Development Council has hired a new executive director at a time when big decisions that will affect the county’s future are pending.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Like many other organizations across the state and beyond, those involved with Partners for Peace — the domestic violence resource center for Piscataquis and Penobscot counties — did their best to navigate the pandemic.

Contributed photo DIP IN SCHOODIC LAKE – The ice was barely out of Schoodic Lake on Sunday when the Brownville Days Committee sponsored the first Schoodic Lake Polar Dip to benefit events set for July 22-24.

GUILFORD – Valley Grange of Guilford is sponsoring a blanket-making event on Saturday, May 14 from 9 a.

By Kim Brawn “In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights the way,” Yoda OK, so the diminutive Jedi Master was probably not talking about libraries, but he could have been.

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to name Amy Collinsworth as Katahdin Region economic development director.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Residents of Dover-Foxcroft are divided on whether an opioid addiction treatment office proposed for downtown is needed in the community.