DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis Regional YMCA recently announced a New Year’s Challenge to area businesses and organizations.

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DOVER-FOXCROFT — Chris Wesley, program director at the Piscataquis Regional YMCA, announced that the PRYMCA will be offering a snowshoeing and winter survival course beginning on Jan.

GREENVILLE — Cadet Airman First Class Nicholas Tinto of the Greenville Civil Air Patrol, recently participated in a one week trip to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.

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    DEXTER — Over 20 local residents gathered recently in Dexter’s Abbott Memorial Library to participate in a spirited first Friday discussion about home heating, sponsored by Dexter-Dover Area Towns in Transition (DDATT).

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC/Miosac Club met at Thayer Parkway Jan.

    The 112th Audubon Bird Count was held in the Dover-Foxcroft area on Monday, Dec.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Lesley Fernow, M.

GULFORD — The Valley Grange of Guilford is undertaking a project members hope will preserve an awareness of the historical role of Granges in the area.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Ushering in 2013, Mayo Regional Hospital announced the first baby of the year was born on Wednesday, Jan.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The American Woolen Company Foxcroft Mill in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, has been entered in the National Register of Historic Places according to Earle G.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     GREENVILLE — Voters authorized the school committee to demolish the 49-year-old Nickerson Elementary School building last June, but nobody is expecting it to take place any time soon.

By Bill PearsonStaff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — The town of Parkman lost its Jan.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     DOVER-FOXCROFT — Members of the SeDoMoCha School community have held several fundraisers to benefit grade 8 student Raven Nally and her family while Nally is undergoing treatments for Ewing’s sarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor affecting children.

By Stuart Hedstrom  Staff Writer     BROWNVILLE — Last spring the Board of Selectmen hired Doug Reed, a licensed state forester, to care for the town’s approximate 400 acres of woodlands.

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Dover-Foxcroft resident Alice Shephardson, left, celebrated her 102nd birthday last week with her daughters Peg Wakeland, back, and Rachel Kimball at Hibbard Nursing Home.