DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Commissioners agreed in September to provide $7,000 to the town of Brownville for a slope study.

AUGUSTA — More than 20,000 people died on U.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County has scheduled a series of in-person and remote meetings to gather community input on how to spend $29.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Investigators are still piecing together how a man who went missing in LaGrange in June died before a hunter found his body more than five months later on the day after Thanksgiving.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff LAGRANGE – The body of a man found several weeks ago has been identified as the person who has been missing from LaGrange for six months.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — An approximate $5.

A former school board member, teacher and coach from Milo will serve nine months and one day in prison for sex crimes involving a former student, according to the district attorney’s office.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Select Board authorized the demolition and removal of structures on the property at 72 Lincoln St.

By Josh Keefe, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County, Maine, and Stafford County, Virginia, are home to slightly more than 151,000 people.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A formal decision will be made after the bid process, but the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office may be equipping patrol vehicles with computers to enable tickets to be written electronically and for deputies to check information on site.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A man who allegedly threatened his recently deceased son’s significant other with a firearm was found dead in his son’s residence following a six-hour standoff with police on Friday.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – A standoff between police and a barricaded subject in Dover-Foxcroft has ended, said Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

GARLAND – A two-story house in Garland was left destroyed after a fire ripped through the wooden structure Thursday night.

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

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.

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

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.