GRADE 5: High Honors: Grace Carlson, Aine Casey, Bodie Clarke, Alexis Cole, Kamryn Commeau, Rebekah Demers, Alex Dulac, Emily Fuller, Miles Gadwah, Emily Harmon-Weeks, James Jankunas, Makayla Landry, Jasper Makowski, Abigail Reed, Jacob Reed, Austin Seavey and Meghan Spooner.

GRADE 5: High Honors: Kiana Bennett, Owen Brown, Clyde Day, Avery Gagnon, Arianna Jandreau, Elizabeth Kinney, Madeline Myers, Amelia Rolfe, Nathan Schobel, Cole Smith and Justin Williams.

GRADE 7 — High honors: Noah Bilodeau, Morgan Noyes, Jessica Pomerleau and Thomas Watt.

GRADE 6: High Honors: Ainsley Ade, May Horton, Izaak Krause, Miranda Leclair and Courtney Rouleau.

Piscataquis Community Secondary School fourth-quarter honor roll as announced by Principal John Keane: GRADE 7: High Honors: Melissa Burdin, Madelynn Crosby, Macee Pearl, Jemyni True and Taylor Willey.

GRADE 9: High Honors: Jenna Clukey, Emily Curtis, Maya Hagelin, Matthew Harmon, Charlotte Jolin, Gabrielle Jolin, Griffin Loomis and Avery Nelson.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A “whoopie pie” 10-cent book sale will be at the Thompson Free Library on 186 East Main Street.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Kicking off the Maine Whoopie Pie Festival this year, as it has for the past several years, is the Piscataquis Regional YMCA Earn Your Whoopie Pie 3K Run/Walk and Kid’s 1K Fun Run.

Observer file photo/Stuart Hedstrom MAGICIAN’S ASSISTANT — Magician Conjuring Carroll Chapman gets a hand from Evalyn Fisk with two of his pet ropes and a moving knot during a performance in the Varney Agency Kids Whoopie Pie Zone last year.

Observer file photo/Stuart Hedstrom FIRST TASTE OF THE WHOOPIE PIE FESTIVAL — Maine Whoopie Festival organizer Patrick Myers greets the crowd coming through the gates to open the 2014 event.

Observer photo/Mike Lange  PCSS NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY – Front row, from left: Cahrey Harris, Haylee Patterson, Mariah Chapman and Taylor Sinclair.

Observer file photo/Stuart Hedstrom HIGH IN THE SKY OVER DOVER-FOXCROFT — Hot air balloons will be returning to Dover-Foxcroft this weekend with a hot air balloon rally.

Observer file photos/Stuart Hedstrom FROM GROUND TO AIR — During the 2014 Piscataquis Heritage Hot Air Balloon Festival in Dover-Foxcroft, a balloon is inflated at the Piscataquis Valley Fairgrounds.

Observer file photo   DEDICATION – Irving Gilbert of Vassalboro, pictured after last year’s fourth-place finish, has competed in all 42 Piscataquis River Races.

    The Foxcroft Golf Club  is part of the community with a public, 9-hole par 36 course nestled in the heart of Piscataquis County.

    The Sebec 4 Corners Event Center and Ye Olde Sebec Grange Shoppe are both looking forward to a busy summer and fall.

    The past year has been an eventful one for C.

    It’s that time of year again, the sweetest day in Maine is fast approaching.