DOVER-FOXCROFT — The RSU 68 Board of Directors gave their approval to a budget for the 2013-14 academic year totaling $9,792,467 during a monthly meeting May 7 at the SeDoMoCha School.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Jane Hibbard-Merrill, owner and president of Hibbard Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, has announced today that she has agreed to sell the Nursing Home and Main Street West to First Atlantic HealthCare (FAHC) located in South Portland, Maine.

    A May 15 letter to editor entitled “Sangerville is not a dictatorship” was written in 2011 and resurfaced recently via e-mail by mistake.

    DEXTER — Beginning June 4, the Dexter Community Band will change its rehearsal site for this summer to the Wayside Theatre (Grange Hall) 851 North, Dexter Road.

    DEXTER — Maine’s dynamic duo, Ken and Jane Brooks, will play vintage folk, bluegrass, gospel and classic country at 7 p.

Diane Sharrow, right, and Lisa Kingsbury wash the windows of downtown Dover-Foxcroft businesses on the morning of May 17 as part of the second annual Shiretown Shine Up.

    GUILFORD — Valley Grange celebrated community with a potluck supper and program on Friday night that seemed to be all about time.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Students and family members of the pre-kindergarten program at SeDoMoCha Elementary School spent recent evenings taking part in activities designed to get them interested in reading together during “Monkey Mayhem Family Literacy Night” held May 14 and 16 for the morning and afternoon program sessions.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DEXTER — A resident complained that the peace and tranquility which once abounded around Lake Wassookeag is no more, as the blast of cannon fire has disrupted those formerly peaceful nights.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     SANGERVILLE — The selectmen’s selection of a 1995 GMC one-ton platform truck has sparked both criticism and a discussion about what is and isn’t a pick-up truck.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The commissioners voted unanimously to hold a special meeting next week to award a contract for ditching and culvert replacement along a 1.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     BROWNVILLE — The town of Brownville will be participating in a value added service (VAS) inventory program for its water and sewer departments with Team EJP (Everett J.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DEXTER — Gerry Marshall has become so frustrated with his efforts to develop his 42-acre Abbott Hill property that he’s put it up for sale, taken legal action against the town of Dexter and displayed four signs located in two locations stating his displeasure with the town manager and former code enforcement officer.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Thanks to the generosity of the Valley Grange, a tradition has been in place for a number of years in which grade 3 students in RSU 68 and SAD 4 and 41 each receive a dictionary through the Words for Thirds Dictionary Project.

    SANGERVILLE VANDALISM — Two Sangerville properties have been either broken into or vandalized several times in the past year.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer    DOVER-FOXCROFT — SeDoMoCha Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders had the opportunity to hear from over two dozen speakers, who told them about what they do for a living and how they arrived to where they are from their school days during Career Day on May 6.

    PERFORMING FOR FUEL ASSISTANCE — The Maine Highlands Classical Trio will perform at the Congregational Church in Dover-Foxcroft on Friday, May 17 at 7 p.

    Observer photo/Bill Pearson CHEERING CELEBRATION — The Dexter Regional High School cheerleading team was represented, from left, by Coach Kacie Ladd, Aaliyah Williams, Emmitt Ross and Phoebe Phillips during a special presentation on May 9 by the Dexter Town Council which recognized the squad for winning the 2013 State and Eastern Maine Class C cheerleading championships.