This holiday season, Pine Tree Hospice delivered over 200 cards to residents in nursing homes, residential facilities and senior apartments throughout the service area.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Chris Clukey, PA, on behalf of Dover Audiology, presented the Dover Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard with a check for $1,000 to help with food insecurities during these current times.

By Patty Wight, Maine Public On a day when Maine has set another record for new daily cases of COVID-19, Dr.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Usually the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office uses the money from returnable cans and bottles in the office to help fund the Drug Abuse Education Program.

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

By Charles Eichacker Bangor Daily News Staff A 70-year-old man incarcerated at Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston was the state’s first inmate to die from the coronavirus, the Maine Department of Corrections announced Dec.

By Lindsay Putnam, Bangor Daily News Staff State police have charged a LaGrange man with manslaughter nearly six months after a July crash that killed the passenger in the SUV he was driving.

Maine’s legacy as an outdoors destination could speed its economic recovery By Lori Valigra Bangor Daily News Staff Hiram Ricker didn’t know he was starting what would become a world-famous water company when he drank from a spring reported to have healing properties.

By Charles Eichacker, Bangor Daily News Staff December has now tied November as Maine’s deadliest month in the coronavirus pandemic, with 82 people succumbing to the virus so far and with the virus still surging to record levels as eight days still remain until January — meaning the last month of 2020 will likely go out as the state’s deadliest yet.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Extension Association annual meeting begins at 3 p.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Courthouses around Maine are closing to the public several days a week through the month of January as coronavirus cases continue surging across the state.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Gusts up to 60 mph and record-high temperatures could greet Mainers as they awake to unwrap Christmas gifts on Friday morning.

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

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff Gov.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff Six types of weather events that struck Maine in 2020 — drought, wildfires, storms, floods, warming oceans and rising sea levels — are expected to make return visits in the coming years as climate change continues to affect the state.

By Joseph Cyr, Houlton Pioneer Times HOULTON — The Maine Department of Education has scrapped plans to build a $120 million regional high school in southern Aroostook County.

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