BROWNVILLE — Just in time for Fire Prevention Week, Oct.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — After briefly discussing the topic at each of last month’s meetings, the Piscataquis County Commissioners approved the purchase of 16 cameras to add to the Piscataquis County Jail security system during a meeting on Tuesday morning, Oct.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Northern Light Mayo Hospital is applying to the Maine Board of Emergency Medical Services to license Northern Light Mayo Hospital as a transporting service at the EMT level, permitted to provide care at the paramedic level on some calls, with a primary service area of Abbot, Athens, Atkinson, Barnard Twp, Blanchard Twp, Bowerbank, Bradford, Charleston, Corinna, Corinth, Dexter, Dover-Foxcroft, Elliottsville Twp, Exeter, Garland, Guilford, Kingsbury Plantation, Monson, Parkman, Ripley, Sangerville, Sebec, and Willimantic.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff CHARLESTON — Crews battled a fire at a Charleston logging operation on Monday, Sept.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A mosquito-borne disease has been found in three more Maine counties.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Staffing shortages are plaguing two essential public safety departments in Penobscot County.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A beverage truck crashed early Thursday morning, Sept.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A man allegedly threatened his family and police with an ax in Carmel on Monday.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The construction process to move the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center from cramped conditions in the county jail in Dover-Foxcroft into the administrative unit of the sheriff’s office on the first floor of the same building has been proceeding and is nearing completion.

By Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News Staff Investigations into the Oxford County sheriff over the last year drew public attention to how he traded guns from the evidence room to a local gun store without seeking permission from the original gun owners, keeping financial records of the deal or telling officials responsible for finances about it.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff DOVER-FOXCROFT – A Sangerville woman who was indicted on charges of manslaughter and aggravated criminal operating under the influence has received a 12-year sentence.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Guilford woman who was found guilty of stealing more than $700,000 from a Medford company over a period of three years has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

By Ethan Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff DEXTER — A Windham man died on Saturday night, Sept.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff CHARLESTON — An inmate at the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston died on Monday.

DEXTER — During its summer meetings the Dexter Town Council have discussed how dogs and their owners and other recreators at the Lake Wassookeag public beach and recreation area can all share the space.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — For several years Dover-Foxcroft officials have been using an established road management plan to schedule paving and maintenance on municipal travelways, and more recently the community has begun a similar plan for its sidewalks.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff GREENVILLE — A Bangor man allegedly abandoned a pickup truck after it overturned on a Greenville school soccer field.

By Elizabeth Walztoni, Bangor Daily News Staff Cheryl Curtis was at home when the Jersey steer she spent nearly $3,000 raising to feed her family this winter disappeared from her barn in St.