DEXTER — A month after the Dexter Town Council amended its ordinance on marijuana businesses to permit medical marijuana facilities and adult use marijuana products manufacturing facilities, another proposed change is being brought forward.

By Sarah Walker Caron, Bangor Daily News Staff A Canadian Pacific freight train derailed in Sandwich Academy Grant Township outside of Rockwood in Somerset County early Saturday, setting the surrounding forest on fire, according to the Maine Forest Service.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Starting at 9 a.

GREENVILLE — Earlier this year $1.

MILO — The town of Milo will be sending out five requests for proposals to engineering/building firms for a design-build of the near $6.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — With about $2.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A three-unit apartment building and attached barn in Dover-Foxcroft were destroyed in a blaze Tuesday, and the town’s fire chief credited nearby contractors with saving the lives of a few residents.

MILO — At last month’s annual town meeting  many of the articles making up the warrant were not voted on by residents.

AUGUSTA — Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Maine Forest Service announced the expansion of its emergency order restricting the movement of ash trees, green ash waste, ash firewood, and any other materials that may be a means of emerald ash border transportation.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County has hired a lobbyist to work behind the scenes at the State House to push for state funding of a new jail and more deputies — services usually primarily funded by county governments — highlighting the challenges that the county views as most dire.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff After 54 years in operation, an Orono-based search and rescue nonprofit organization will close at the end of November due its dwindling and aging membership.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Dover-Foxcroft residents will gather at 9 a.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — After several weeks serving in an interim capacity, Sgt.

MILO — An 84-year-old Milo man faces an attempted murder charge after allegedly pointing a loaded gun at the police chief’s head and threatening to kill him earlier this month.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County’s commissioners agreed during a meeting Tuesday to seek bids for a roof repair project for the sheriff’s office patrol building in Guilford.

GREENVILLE — Before the Greenville fire station can be demolished and replaced with a new public safety building, the Minden Street structure needs to be cleared out.

MILO — Many of the articles making up the warrant for the 2023 annual town meeting were not voted on by residents gathered in the Ed Wingler Auditorium upstairs at the Milo Town Hall on the evening of March 13.

GREENVILLE — A couple and two children who became stranded out on the ice on Moosehead Lake during a severe winter storm were rescued late in the night on March 14 by a group of both Maine Game Warden and Passamaquoddy Game Warden trainees who were in the area.