By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     MILO — Officials from member communities in both SAD 41 and its AOS 43 partner SAD 31 have been invited to an informational meeting on Tuesday, Nov.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     MONSON — While the start of winter may be over a month and a half away, the season’s sports at SeDoMoCha Middle School have begun with basketball tryouts.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DEXTER — The new Jobs for Maine Graduates Program at SAD 46 is off to a good start, with 44 students enrolled and a great deal of support from the community.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — While they may not be able to officially vote for nearly another decade, fourth-graders at SeDoMoCha Elementary had the chance to replicate the real thing as they learned about the process for putting leaders in place and laws on the books.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department vehicle fleet is in rough shape with several patrol vehicles approaching 140,000 miles on their odometers.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County results came in slowly on Election Night.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     MILO — In the current school year, over 50 students in grades 9-12 at Penquis Valley High School are involved in Jobs for Maine’s Graduates (JMG), an organization with a mission to identify students who face barriers to education and to guide each one on to a successful path toward continued education, a meaningful career and a productive adulthood.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Facing his first challenge on the ballot in more than 20 years, Piscataquis County Sheriff John Goggin was re-elected last week by a 4,664-3,086 vote over Dover-Foxcroft Police Chief Dennis Dyer.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     BROWNVILLE — Students at the Brownville Elementary School gave a big thank you to all who have served as each grade presented during a Veterans Day assembly on the afternoon of Nov.

For Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, purple ribbons were placed at town welcome signs, including Dover-Foxcroft’s on Route 15, throughout Piscataquis and Penobscot counties.

The Hibbard Skilled Nursing Center in Dover-Foxcroft invited residents, families and staff members to bring in their children to trick or treat.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis Public Health Council, a local Healthy Maine Partnership (HMP) in partnership with Mayo Regional Hospital and Maine’s Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, is providing the following free trainings:     Training for Intervention Procedures (TIPS) on Wednesday, Nov.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The first snowflake of the season may have just fallen, but the Kiwanis Club of Dover-Foxcroft is already beginning its planning for this year’s Christmas Project.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The community is invited to the annual Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours and Harvest Trunk Show event on Nov.

Dexter Sunrise Kiwanis photo Marci King was a recent guest speaker at the Dexter Sunrise Kiwanis meeting.

    GUILFORD — The JD Foundation is holding its second annual Christmas Auction on Nov.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Are you certified to work near water bodies? As of July 1, 2013, work within 250 feet of any water body (the shoreland zone) requires a certified contractor on site.

Observer photo/Mike Lange The Black Frog in downtown Greenville will be demolished this fall and replaced with a new restaurant and tavern called Puckerbrush.