The fifth annual 5K Walk/Run to “Wake the Silence” to support The JD Foundation will be held virtually on Saturday, Oct.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — Absentee ballots begin going out to Maine voters Oct.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The $625,000 Drug-Free Communities Support Program award to Northern Light Mayo Hospital will support the proposed PYSUP project- Preventing Youth Use of Alcohol and Tobacco in Piscataquis County.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension has updated its hay and straw directory, which allows sellers to list and buyers to locate feed supplies for livestock, with some resources available for the 2021 harvest.

By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff Before a flock of sheep was stolen from — and then returned to —  a central Maine farm recently, Kathryn Piper never would have given the parked van a second thought.

GREENVILLE — A mile-long looping nature trail with eight interpretive panels designed by local high school students is now open to the public at the Nickerson Tree Farm on Route 15 (480 Moosehead Lake Road).

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Retired Educators Association met at the Bear’s Den on Sept.

By Valerie Royzman, Staff Writer COVID-19 booster shots were approved by the U.

For 35 years the Maine Community Foundation Piscatquis County Fund has awarded nearly $1 million in grants to nonprofits working to improve the quality of life in the region.

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By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff The owner of an outdoor recreation center in the Katahdin region is finally moving ahead with plans to develop a 280-acre parcel into an activity center, hotel, artists village and more.

This story will be updated.

GUILFORD — Picataquis Community Secondary School announces its 2021 Homecoming activities, the public is welcome.

By Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine Legislature on Wednesday breezed through approval of newly drawn legislative and congressional maps, shifting thousands of people from one congressional district to another and laying new political lines for the next decade.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — The Maine Legislature is poised to vote today on new legislative and congressional maps that will account for the recent population shifts and shape the state’s politics for the next decade.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff This story will be updated.

By Valerie Royzman, Staff Writer Nineteen buildings along East Main Street earned recognition as the Dover-Foxcroft Commercial Historic District, which is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A FEMA grant seeking monies to replace nearly 20 air packs for the Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department was not successful.