By Daniel O’Connor The proportion of Mainers registered to vote as Republicans has grown in the past five years in a warning sign for Democrats trying to maintain control over Augusta.

SANGERVILLE —  To help keep the public better informed about its efforts to fix up the Sangerville Town Hall, the building committee is looking to be on several social media platforms.

By Molly Enking, Maine Public Despite normal snowfall this winter, Maine remains in a years-long drought with record low stream flow, which puts the state at below normal flood risk this spring, according to the Maine Emergency Management Agency.

AUGUSTA — University of Maine at Augusta Provost Joseph Szakas announces the fall 2025 full-time president’s list and full-time dean’s list.

Sarah Curtis of Dover-Foxcroft and Pam Goulette of Guilford have joined the Maine Community Foundation’s Piscataquis County Committee.

By Christoper Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Students from Piscataquis County will have the opportunity to earn a degree from Husson University tuition free.

SANGERVILLE — Sangerville Fire Chief Matt Blockler has been authorized by the select board to sign a contract with Northern Light Mayo Hospital which will help allow the department to offer certain types of medical care before the arrival of an ambulance.

By Wendy Watkins, Bangor Daily News Staff The American Red Cross will discontinue mobile blood drives across northern Maine effective in July, according to a statement from the organization.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — After several Piscataquis County officials visited the Sangerville location last week and hearing from Recovery Wellness Community Center Program Manager Alan Burgess during a Tuesday morning county commissioners meeting, the commissioners voted to have $10,000 in county opioid settlement money go annually to the non-profit center.

SANGERVILLE — Sangerville officials will be meeting with the budget committee to come up with a preliminary 2026-27 spending plan to take to the annual town meeting in late March.

GUILFORD — For the second year in a row, due to low numbers for a team of their own, Piscataquis Community High School baseball players will travel down Route 23 to be part of the neighboring Dexter Regional High School Tigers under a cooperative agreement.

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington proudly announces its dean’s list for the fall 2025 semester.

By Judith Meyer, The Maine Monitor AUGUSTA — Members of the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government voted unanimously to table a bill intended to provide bankruptcy protection to Maine counties and municipalities Feb.

By Daniel O’Connor Republicans already have a crowded primary in one of the most conservative parts of Maine, with four candidates running to represent Bangor-area towns and all of Piscataquis County in the state Senate.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Revenues covered expenses in the 2025 Piscataquis County budget.

Northern Light Health is going all in for heart health this February, joining the national observance of American Heart Month with a powerful message: “Be the Heart of Our Community.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff For years, Maine’s most rural county has seen the most homes sold per capita in the state, and real estate still changes hands in the middle of winter.

Maine students are kelp farming in Belfast, making honey to study pollinator health in Bath and studying why the Bloomfield School in Skowhegan is home to one of the largest colonies of endangered cliff swallows in Maine.