DOVER-FOXCROFT – A week after residents of the four RSU 68 communities approved a referendum on Dec.

Grade eight, high honors – habits of work: Ethan Addington, Jon Andrescu, Shealyn Bagley, Cassidy Drew, Nathan Galligan, Trenton Hanscom, Ryan Hocking, Paige Jandreau, Taylor Michaud, Damiair Miller, Chloe Murdock, Annabelle Peakes, Casey Swenson, and Bailey Turcotte; honors – habits of work: Caleb Pelkey, Kallie Stone, and Lexi Wintle; high honors – academic: Jon Andrescu, Shealyn Bagley, Ryan Hocking, Chloe Murdock, and Casey Swenson; honors – academic: Caleb Pelkey and Baylee Turcotte.

BANGOR – At Eastern Maine Development Corporation ’s annual board meeting, EMDC announced its 2021 awards recipients.

By Kristen Sutherland, Pine Tree Hospice Executive Director Giving care to someone with dementia is a complex and highly demanding labor of love.

Grade eight, high honors: Julian Gauvin and Connor Smith; honors: Liam Atkinson, Sean Chenkins, Michael Coburn, Brooklyn Decker, Amara Driscoll, Aidan Murano, Wyatt Romero, Byron Severance, Joshua Stineford, and Gage Yenchochic.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – The Center Theatre announced that due to the surge in COVID cases in the community they are reducing the seating capacity for each performance of their Christmas production.

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DEXTER — Dexter town councilors discussed ways to spend $195,706 in American Rescue Plan Act funds the town received this fall during a meeting last week.

By Josh Keefe, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County, Maine, and Stafford County, Virginia, are home to slightly more than 151,000 people.

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MILO – SAD 41 students and staff will be starting the holiday vacation a day early later this month.

BREWER – Northern Light Health is gearing up to provide vaccinations to eligible 16 and 17-year-olds following the recent announcement from the U.

When a Knox County developer and his partners began work to get a year-round ski resort in Piscataquis County off the ground more than three years ago, nobody could predict pandemic-related delays.

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Grade 12, highest honors: Ruth Griffith and Hailee Hartford; high honors: Victor De Saint-Denis, Hannah Dow, Taylor Folsom, Sarah Gray, Sydney Hutchins, Elizabeth Kendall, Gianna Kopf, Christina Maguire, Ben Martin, Jessie Mayberry, Shania Milano, and Alex Shedd; honors: Jacob Beckwith, Grace Buehne, Matt Burdin, Matt Chadbourne, Dean Demmer, Zoey (Zenix) Dow-Cookson, Kayden Gilbert, Martina Hill, MacKenzie Kain, Alexandria Maguire, Aliyah Ouellette, and Cassidy Rohdin.

The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Theater Fund has awarded $93,500 in grants to 20 organizations across the state.

Grade 12, high honors: Alvin Robshaw, Emily McKinnon, Grady Atkinson, Hope Lovell, and Maxwell Osgood; honors: Benjamin Bouley, Bethany Clements, Desirea Stanley, Dominic Jones, Ethan Bishop, Jonathan Paquette,Justin Chambers, Kasside Witham, Mikal Sicklar, and Olivia Legere.

Grade 12, highest honors: Caitlyn Chabot, Bradley Crane, Miles Gadwah, Shelbie Poulin, and Cole Smith; high honors: Kianna Bennett, Riley Campbell, Clyde Day, Rickey Goodell, Jr.