Photo courtesy of Bangor Savings Bank COMMUNITY MATTERS MORE RECIPIENT — Marilyn Hartford, Dover-Foxcroft and Greenville branch manager for Bangor Savings Bank, recently presented a $1,000 check from the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation to Dennis Lyford, president of the Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis for being a 2015 Community Matters More winner, which will be used to support the Kiwanis’ backpack program.

BROWNVILLE — Members of the Piscataquis Amateur Radio Club (PARC) will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise June 27–28 at the Stickney Hill repeater site near Field of Dreams plant nursery.

File photo/Piscataquis Observer  FRESH FROM THE OVEN — Former employee Teresa Myers brings out a pizza from Stutzman’s brick oven last summer.

Observer file photo/Mike Lange GUILFORD MEMORIAL BRIDE — The Department of Transportation plans to replace the deck on the Guilford Memorial Bridge for the first time since it opened in 1954.

Contributed Article  DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County has been awarded federal funds made available through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS/Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program.

 DEXTER/DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Summer Science Club announces opportunities for hands-on science, technology, engineering and math activities for youngsters in grades 5-8.

Contributed photo HELPING THE COMMUNITY — The Living Word Assembly of God in Dover-Foxcroft recently took up its Jerusalem Fund Love Offering to help Logan Bagley, a 17-year-old who has been diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer.

In the Sangerville Board of Selectmen’s story in the June 17, it was stated that Richard Dobson claimed that the disput-ed ordinance listed in the town meeting report was different than the one he submitted by petition.

By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — A number of changes are underway and are being planned at Mayo Regional Hospital, and hospital officials shared their vision for the future during a recent Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours event at the Center Theatre on June 11.

 GREENVILLE — There will be a small business assistance forum at the Greenville municipal building on Thursday, June 25 starting at 5:30 p.

Piscataquis Observer PhotoA commemorative shirt for the Piscataquis County United Bikers of Maine sixth annual Cancer Ride.

By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer MILO — Thanks to a $4,000 grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, students at Penquis Valley Middle School each had the opportunity to order $20 worth of books to read over the summer.

By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer      DOVER-FOXCROFT — With the current academic year nearing a conclusion at the end of the month, the administrative positions for 2015-16 are being set.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Commissioners voted last week to move up the timetable for a bond referendum for construction of a new sheriff’s office.

Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom BRIDGING THE GAP —  SeDoMoCha Middle School eighth-grader Alicia Chambers places her bridge to be tested on June 16 in the annual bridge-building competition in teacher Ryan Nickerson’s math classes.

Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom FIND THE WHOOPIE PIE WINNER — Eileen Hall of Guilford, second from right, is the grand prize winner in The Piscataquis Observer’s annual Find The Whoopie Pie contest.

By Stuart HedstromStaff Writer DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis Valley Snowmobile Club will have a new groomer for when the snow starts to fly, after a financing package through the town of Dover-Foxcroft for the vehicle was approved during a special town meeting on June 15.

Area golfers will have the chance to enjoy two days of golf in support of a great cause at the 2015 Pine Tree Hospice Golf Open.