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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff SANGERVILLE — Another illegal marijuana operation has been uncovered in Sangerville.

By Emmett Gardner, The Maine Monitor DOVER-FOXCROFT – The most common argument Dover-Foxcroft Select Board Chair Tom Lizotte hears for keeping the town’s defunct dam on the Piscataquis River is it’s always been there, for as long as residents can remember.

DOVER-FOXCROFT —  The 13th annual Dover-Foxcroft Firefighters Association Ice Fishing Derby took place on Sebec Lake Feb.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — At last month’s public forum the Mayo Mill Dam steering committee presented its recommendation  that  removing the dam and connecting facilities and building a riverfront park is in the town’s best interests moving forward.

GREENVILLE — Fundraising and grant opportunities are vital to equipping fire departments across Maine and the nation, and the Greenville Fire Department is no exception as the entity protects both the town and surrounding region.

By Christopher Bouchard, St.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff EXETER — A barn on Brown Road in Exeter burned flat Saturday, Feb.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff More than 9,800 marijuana plants were seized by police across Maine in less than a week.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff There were two snowmobile crashes and three sleds through the ice or into the open water recently on Moosehead Lake, according to the Rockwood Fire Department.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — As a way to supplement an increased emergency call volume and staffing challenges currently being experienced by Northern Light Mayo Emergency Medical Services, the town of Dover-Foxcroft is proposing the creation of a municipal EMS department to supplement that of the hospital.

By Zara Norman, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — Federal teams are on the ground to get aid to homeowners, renters and small businesses after storms that battered Maine in December and January with other programs likely coming from the state to fill gaps.

By Ethan Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff Police confiscated roughly 2,000 marijuana plants Friday, Feb.

MILO — The Milo Fire Department has located a vehicle that would replace a more than 40-year-old ladder truck.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The process to move the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center from cramped conditions in the Piscataquis County Jail in Dover-Foxcroft into the administrative unit of the sheriff’s office in Guilford has begun.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County is taking a step forward in its controversial years-long effort to build a new jail by seeking to buy land for the project.

By Ethan Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff The Internal Revenue Service has extended deadlines for people in 10 Maine counties affected by the severe storms and flooding that started on Dec.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine saw a 16 percent decline in fatal overdoses last year.