DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Trump Administration announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $5,434,400 to help eight essential community facilities in rural Maine.

BROWNVILLE JUNCTION — This has been an unusual year.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — For more than a year Repeat After Me, a high end family consignment shop, has provided next to new items at affordable prices.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Officers with the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office patrol and investigation divisions are now working out of a new building at the former Key Bank location on Hudson Avenue in Guilford.

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EMDC to host virtual Information session for interested businesses, nonprofits and partners 10 a.

A quick look at the windows of many businesses in Dover-Foxcroft, as well as down Route 7 in Dexter and Newport, shows a 4- by 2-foot banner featuring a woman’s portrait filling most of the space, a short quote of theirs and the words “Let’s Talk About It.

MONSON — Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble, Monson Arts and The Center Theatre, will present the FAFALO! outdoors behind Tenney House in Monson at 2 p.

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MILO — Construction of a large solar farm is under way at the Eastern Piscataquis Business Park in Milo.

The owner of the Big Squaw Mountain ski resort near Moosehead Lake is resisting changing the resort’s name after three women started a petition and after a similarly named California resort removed the derogatory term from its name.

GREENVILLE — The Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit responded to a residence located at 18 Beech Street in Greenville on Thursday, Aug.

Maine is still giving schools in every county the green light to reopen in person, but that green light comes with a caveat in Penobscot and York counties due to recent outbreaks and increasing case numbers.

Single-use items are so ingrained in our culture that nearly all of us — no matter how sustainability-minded we may be — throw things away without even thinking about it.

AUGUSTA — Maine cities and towns will have more time to process absentee ballots ahead of the Nov.

DEXTER — A week before the opening days of classes during the first week of September, teachers, staff and administrators across SAD 46 have been busy making preparations for a school year that will be unlike any other with hybrid instruction and remote learning methods being used.

AUGUSTA — Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said Tuesday his office will contest a judge’s ruling that a Republican challenge to a ranked-choice voting law made the 2020 ballot before walking the statement back the next day as a key deadline approaches.

A Penobscot County man suffered serious injuries when he was thrown from his pickup truck as it crashed in Corinth on Tuesday night.