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County officials expect $5.4M budget for 2022

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscatquis County’s 2022 budget and 2022-23 unorganized territory budget are likely to increase by 5.

Penobscot County had Maine’s highest crime rate last year

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff The crime rate in Penobscot County was the highest in the state last year for the second year in a row, according to statistics released this week by the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Penobscot County Jail can’t transfer inmates to state prisons because of continuing COVID outbreak

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A nearly two-month-old COVID-19 outbreak at the Penobscot County Jail is preventing nearly two dozen inmates from being transferred to state prisons so they can complete their sentences there.

Dover-Foxcroft Select Board asks for detailed plan to mend Lincoln Street property

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The incarcerated owner of the property at 72 Lincoln St.

County officials hear study findings from group looking at inadequate communications system

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The consulting group hired to study the communications needs for the county’s emergency responders presented its findings to the Piscataquis County Commissioners on Tuesday.

Hate crimes and human trafficking are on radar for Maine’s new U.S. attorney

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine’s new U.

Maine man dies at Charleston prison

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff CHARLESTON — A former Limerick man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for hitting a pedestrian on the Fourth of July in 2016 has died.

MaineDOT plans repairs for East Main Street bridge in Dover-Foxcroft

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Maine Department of Transportation engineers are expected to remove unstable pieces of concrete on a bridge along East Main Street in December, Town Manager Jack Clukey said during the Dover-Foxcroft Select Board meeting Monday.

Cooking fire causes minor damage to Dover-Foxcroft house

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Friday night cooking fire left a two-story house in Dover-Foxcroft largely unaffected besides a damaged microwave and the lingering smell of smoke.

MaineDOT monitoring damaged East Main Street bridge in Dover-Foxcroft

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Maine Department of Transportation engineers are monitoring and planning potential repairs for a piece of a bridge along East Main Street that appears to be crumbling.

$3K reward offered for Harmony deer poacher

HARMONY — Game wardens are offering a $3,000 reward to catch a poacher.

Penobscot County wants to add 100 beds to its aging, overcrowded jail

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — Penobscot County is asking architectural firms for proposals to add about 100 beds to its existing jail on Hammond Street in Bangor, marking the county’s latest attempt to ease overcrowding at the 161-year-old facility that regularly exceeds its licensed capacity of 157 inmates.

Commissioners uphold town vote on Shirley’s Blanchard Road

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A decade-plus disagreement over winter maintenance of the Blanchard Road in Shirley between the town and a resident will likely now be headed to court for a solution.

Kinney promoted to brigadier general

By Emily AdamsWASHINGTON, D.

Corinth man seriously injured in Charleston crash

CHARLESTON — Shortly before 7 a.

Dover-Foxcroft voters head to the polls on Tuesday

DOVER-FOXCROFT — On Tuesday, Nov.

Collins touts $1.7M that would let Corinna renovate new fire station

By Lia Russell, Bangor Daily News Staff CORINNA — A fire department that serves Corinna and Exeter could receive as much as $1.

Former Milo school official indicted for sex crimes involving student

A former school board member from Milo who was a teacher and tennis coach at Penquis Valley High School was indicted Thursday, Oct.

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