By Jules Walkup, Bangor Daily News Staff LONG POND TOWNSHIP – Two people survived a Saturday morning collision on July 15 with a moose in Long Pond Township.

By Paul Bagnell, The Star-Herald Staff Maine Public Broadcasting Corp.

Congressional funding could be the last hope for an emergency radio overhaul in Piscataquis County.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A new Piscataquis County logo is about to appear in print as the county commissioners signed the first letterhead with the logo during a meeting on Tuesday morning.

By Braeden Waddell, Bangor Daily News Staff After the Saturday drowning death of 46-year-old Hope man, state officials are warning swimmers to take caution in the water due to the recent rain.

GREENVILLE — A grant application for $125,000 to cover a portion of the HVAC system at the new Greenville Public Safety Building, which is currently under construction, was formally signed by the select board during a July 5 meeting, two days ahead of the deadline.

MILO — At the start of the year the town of Milo was awarded nearly $6.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff The Penobscot County Commission approved a $2 an hour raise for the county’s 911 dispatchers to retain and attract new employees for the county’s long understaffed dispatch center.

GUILFORD — Seventeen members of the Piscataquis Region Retired Educators Association met June 27 at the Craft Cafe in Guilford.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A 12-year-old boy riding his bike in Dover-Foxcroft was struck by a motor vehicle Thursday night, June 29.

Heavy rainfall Thursday, June 29 led to significant flooding and road washouts in pockets of Maine.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — More than a decade and a half has passed since the Mayo Mill Dam on the Piscataquis River in downtown Dover-Foxcroft has produced energy.

AUGUSTA — This holiday weekend, the Maine Warden Service will be actively patrolling Maine’s waterways, keeping Maine boaters safe, and enforcing Maine’s boating laws in order to raise awareness about operating under the influence during Operation Dry Water.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA, Maine — Both chambers of the Legislature have approved a measure aimed at curtailing Maine’s practice of keeping excess proceeds from the sale of foreclosed homes in response to a U.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff The number of wildfires in Maine is on the rise, but it is not just Maine’s vast forests that are at risk, according to fire officials.

GREENVILLE — Earlier this year more than $1.

MILO — A proposed 2023-24 SAD 41 budget totaling $11,048,816 was approved during the annual district budget meeting in the Walter “Eddie” Oakes Gymnasium at the Penquis Valley School on June 21.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County officials plan to alleviate internet issues at the county campus on East Main Street with a cabling upgrade.