By Sam Schipani, Bangor Daily News Staff Classic basil pesto is perfect on its own.

CHARLESTON — On July 15 , a Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Maine Forest Service Ranger helicopter crew assisted the Corinth and Charleston Fire Departments with a short-haul rescue.

Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger is pleased to announce it raised $110,000 during the month of June as part of the Campaign’s $100,000 Challenge.

DEXTER — Earlier in the month 80 teenagers and adults from around the country spent close to a week in Dexter working on 13 home projects at no cost for area residents who otherwise could not afford to have the needed repairs made.

We are living in extraordinary times as we are just now emerging from a deadly pandemic that has killed over 600,000 of our fellow Americans.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension was one of several organizations that surveyed farmers and agriculture service providers in 2020 to determine the stressors being experienced during the pandemic and what practices might best help Maine farms recover.

The Maine Association of REALTORS Foundation (MAR Foundation) has awarded $10,000 to Penquis from the REALTORS Affordable Housing Fund.

Grade 5, high honors — habits of work: Raelynn Anderson, Morgan Andrews, Adam Brown, Ava Brown, Jackson Clark, Keegan Cromwell, Riley Curtis, Hannah Derosier, Kennedy Hoyt, Aubrey Ladd, Camden McInnis, Hazel McNaughton, Audriana Morin, Keirra Quattrocchi, Allaynah Rolfe and Will Simpson.

By Beth Ranagan It was early evening at a Sebec Lake setting on July 26 that the transfer of leadership for the Central Hall Commons took place.

By Lynne Fort, Bangor Daily News Staff Ryan T.

By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff It’s been a good summer so far for ants.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff White-tailed deer in Maine will have a greater chance of surviving severe winter conditions in the future thanks to recent measures taken by the Legislature.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff There’s nothing like Maine-grown hardwood to rule the Home Run Derby.

By Sam Schipani, Bangor Daily News Staff Farmers and gardeners who feel like Maine’s growing season is changing are right.

By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff Browntail moths have already begun laying clusters of eggs in fuzzy brown egg sacks that will become next year’s toxic caterpillars.

GREENVILLE — The 15th annual Thoreau Wabanaki Trail Festival takes place Wednesday  through Monday, July 21-26, and, like its name-sake, programs trace different locations across  land, sky and water for different experiences.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Vision Care of Maine, serving communities in over 10 locations throughout Maine, will hold a grand opening and Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting for a new, larger Dover-Foxcroft location.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — You are in the midst of a yoga pose when you feel a slight nudge and something hairy brushing against your body.