DOVER-FOXCROFT — With a plan in place to tear down the barn and renovate the home portion of the structure closer to the road, the Dover-Foxcroft Board of Selectmen will not take any action pertaining to a dangerous building order for 72 Lincoln Street  until Nov.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A proposed budget totaling $6,102,510 for the 2021-22 fiscal year was approved at the annual town meeting in the Morton Avenue Municipal Building Gymnasium on April 24.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Two Piscataquis County law enforcement officers acted in self-defense when they shot a Medford man in an armed confrontation nearly two years ago, according to the Maine attorney general’s office.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff The communications center that handles 911 calls and dispatches emergency services in Penobscot County is the site of a coronavirus outbreak, according to its director.

By Lauren Abbate, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine Department of Corrections has rescinded a recent directive that placed new restrictions on the types of mail prisoners can receive, which was resulting in hundreds of pieces of mail being returned to sender.

By Matthew Stone, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — COVID-19 has returned to the Penobscot County Jail, a little more than two weeks after state health officials declared a previous virus outbreak at the Bangor facility over.

The nonpartisan community group, PROACT!, announced that they presented the Piscataquis County  Commissioners with a petition signed online by over 300 people asking the commissioners to rescind  their January ‘Resolution of Protest.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Last month the Dover-Foxcroft Board of Selectmen approved a dangerous building order for a home and attached barn at 72 Lincoln Street to address long-standing problems with the property.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff CHARLESTON — A man has died from injuries that occurred when loading a trailer with logs in Charleston on Sunday afternoon, April 10.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff PORTLAND — A Portland man who has sued the city believes former Gov.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A public hearing on tax increment financing for the project to develop a ski resort with year-round attractions on 1,700 acres overlooking Moosehead Lake in the unorganized territory outside of Greenville will be part of the next regular Piscataquis County Commissioners meeting at 8:30 a.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff For years, police departments have been finding it increasingly difficult to find qualified applicants for patrol officer positions.

MILO — Three people have been charged with felony drug trafficking following a two-month investigation into the sale of fentanyl and crack cocaine from a home in Milo.

By David Marino Jr.

By Matthew LaRoche, Allagash Wilderness Waterway superintendent After 44 years of dedicated service managing two of Maine’s most iconic rivers, I am calling it a career.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — State epidemiologists have closed their investigation into a COVID-19 outbreak at the Penobscot County Jail, as the facility has gone at least two weeks without a new case of the virus, according to a Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson.

By David Marino Jr.

By David Marino Jr.