A record field of 90 runners took part in the annual 5K road race to start the 2017 Fourth of July festivities in Sebec Village. Garth Altenbury had the fastest time of the 90 participants, as he covered the 3.1 miles in a time of 19 minutes, 10 seconds.

A total of 14 craft were entered into 13 different classes during the annual Sebec Lake canoe race held mid-morning as part of the Fourth of July festivities in the village.

For the 16th consecutive summer wrestlers in grades 5-12 from across Maine came to town to learn new techniques and skills they can use during the upcoming scholastic season at the Foxcroft Academy Competition Camp held June 27-30.

For the second time in as many home games during the young Junior American Legion season, the Rowell’s Navigators earned a walk-off victory. The victory during a June 28 contest vs. the Bangor Cadets was earned with the go-ahead run coming on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth.

The Piscataquis Regional YMCA kicked off the 2017 Maine Whoopie Pie Festival on June 24 with the its annual Earn Your Whoopie Pie 3K and Kids’ 1K Fun Run, with both races starting on River Street.

When I started work for the IFW in the mid-1980s, we were having a peak in fishing activity. Angler use was at an all-time high and I used to cringe on the Monday of the Memorial Day weekend to see the steady stream of traffic heading south all loaded with fish from my favorite trout ponds (in my mind anyway).

On June 10 at the Foxcroft Golf Club over 70 area golfers teed off to benefit Pine Tree Hospice. This year’s tournament was co-sponsored by Kimball Insurance of Sangerville.

After Arctic charr became perilously close to disappearing from one of the last remaining ponds in Maine, actions by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) have restored the charr population in Big Reed Pond in northern Piscataquis County.

Trailing 3-0 after the top of the fifth, the Rowell’s Navigators came back to tie the team’s home opener against the Hampden Riverjacks during a matinee Junior American Legion contest on June 18 at Foxcroft Academy. The Navigators (who improved to 2-0) then walked off with a 4-3 victory on a squeeze bunt by Luke Stedman to drive in Doug Kane.

University of Maine field hockey head coach Josette Babineau is pleased to announce her 2017 incoming recruiting class. This year's class consists of five newcomers who will be eligible to compete for the Division I Black Bears in the fall, including recent Dexter Regional High School graduate Abby Webber of Garland.

Senior Nate DeSisto drove in what proved to be the winning run in the bottom of the fifth and classmate Jackson Coutts pitched three scoreless innings of relief as the third-seeded Red Riots upended No. 5 Dexter 2-1 in the Class C North baseball final at Mansfield Stadium.

A two-run blast from Sydney Underhill-Tilton and a three-run triple from Bryanne Lancaster were two of many hits that gave Richmond its 88th straight win, 14-6, and its eighth consecutive regional title. The Bobcats were also playing in the program’s 14th regional final in a row.

Greenville High School came back in the bottom of the seventh inning to defeat Buckfield High School 7-6 in a Class D South softball semifinal on June 10 between the region’s second and third-seeded teams.

Senior Brayden Miller’s walk-off two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh gave fifth-seeded Dexter Regional High School a 6-4 victory over No. 9 Fort Kent Community High School in a Class C North semifinal on the afternoon of June 10.

One might ponder why the department doesn’t back the hatchery truck up to the shore of a pond and just keep tuckin’ the fish right to it until their backs are out of the water. This would certainly produce some pretty good fishing, right? Well, sometimes in fisheries management less is more.

The area’s five high schools all had representation on the 2017 Penobscot Valley Conference (PVC) All-Conference Outdoor Track Teams.

Four top four performances from three team members helped the Penquis Valley High School girls outdoor track team tally 22 points during the 2017 state championship on June 3 at Foxcroft Academy. The 22 points enabled the Patriots to finish in ninth place among a field of 31 schools scoring points at the competition.

Foxcroft Academy senior Emily Mikoud successfully defended her state championship in the discus by winning the event at the 2017 Class B championship on June 3 at Yarmouth High School