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Piscataquis County awarded $1 million in cleanup grants

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — Piscataquis County was awarded $1 million in grants by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up hazardous materials, the Piscataquis County ...
Milo Town Manager Jeff Gahagan stands in front of the Milo Town Hall in October 2009.

Audit finds $600 missing from Milo town coffers, chief says

MILO, Maine — An investigation into $45,000 missing from the Kiwanis Club has been broadened to include $600 discovered missing from an account the club ...
Steven Lake arrested in June 2010 for allegedly holding his wife and children hostage in a bedroom and threatening to kill them and-or himself.

Ex-Maine police officers claim law enforcement failed in its duty to confiscate Lake’s guns

DEXTER, Maine — Nearly one year ago, on the morning of June 13, Steven Lake used a Remington model 11-87 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun with a ...
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$1,000 Check Received by Local Non-Profit

ABBOTT, Maine – The JD Foundation in Abbot wishes to thank all who voted for us in the 2012 Bangor Savings Bank Community Matters More ...
Sgt. Bruce Reed of the Maine Forest Service, Pete Pratt of the Moosehead Riders Snowmobile Club and club member Dave Demers examine the B-52 ejection seat Reed found while hunting last fall after a hike on Elephant Mountain on May 24, 2012.

Recovered B-52 ejection seat gives rise to unanswered questions

TOWNSHIP 8, RANGE 10, Maine — Presumably the last person to sit in the ejection seat Maine Forest Service rangers hauled from Elephant Mountain on ...

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East-West Highway public meeting Thursday, May 31 in Dover-Foxcroft

DOVER-FOXCROFT – Peter Vigue, CEO of Cianbro and Sen. Doug ...
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The Maine north woods are intriguing year-round but never more beautiful than in the fall.

Recreation in the North Maine Woods

Brownville selectmen accept proposal for woodlots

BROWNVILLE, Maine — After considering several potential candidates, the Board ...
Former Milo Town Manager Jeff Gahagan stands in front of the Milo Town Hall in October 2009.

Audit shows no financial problems after resignation of Milo town manager

Maine home sales, prices continue to increase

PORTLAND, Maine — A realty group says home sales in ...
Members of the Maine State Warden Service color guard (from left) Warden Adam Gormley, Sgt. Greg Sanborn, Warden Ron Dunham and Sgt. Dan Menard stand at attention at the site of the1963, B-52 crash at Elephant Mountain in Greenville during a flyover by three helicopters from the 101st Army National Guard in Bangor in January 2003.

Ranger finds ejection seat to B-52 that crashed in 1963

Rev. John Weeks and his wife, Linda, stand in front of Holy Spirit Missions Church and Shelter in Parkman on Thursday, May 21, 2012. Weeks, also known as Pastor Jack, is attempting to raise $20,000 as a down payment to buy the former McKusick Elementary School.

Pastor hopes to open homeless shelter in former Parkman school, needs to raise $20,000

Foxcroft Academy hosting public meeting on east-west highway

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — Foxcroft Academy will host a public meeting ...

Film about reversing disease through food to be shown in Dover-Foxcroft

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The documentary “Forks Over Knives” (PG, 90 ...
Brooke Bolstridge, a first-grader at Brownville Elementary School, walks down her school's interpretive nature trail on May 10, 2012, during the school's first "Nature Trail Celebration Day."

Brownville children celebrate school’s new nature trail

Camille Cramer

Penquis Valley honor parts announced

Officials surprised by application for nature-centric charter school in Monson

AUGUSTA, Maine — There was at least one surprise among ...

Rural Piscataquis County pins economic hopes on new fiber-optic Internet spine

Before 2011, Nicole Snow had moved in and out of ...
Several people hold up signs protesting the proposed east-west highway while the Piscataquis County Commissions meeting goes on inside in Dover-Foxcroft on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The seating was limited to only 30 people for the meeting.

Dozens protest in Dover-Foxcroft as Cianbro chief answers questions about east-west highway

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Peter Vigue meets with Piscataquis County Commissioners

For the first time, Mr. Vigue will push his 2,000 ...
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Free Road and Stream Crossings Workshop

Piscataquis County SWCD hosts a free forestry workshop series The ...

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Piscataquis Sports

PVC track and field championships on the line Friday in Brewer, Saturday in Dover-Foxcroft

It is already championship season for track and field athletes from eastern and northern Maine. The Pendleton Street track behind Brewer Community School and the ...
  • Ryan Rebar’s three-hit shutout lifts Foxcroft past Old Town
  • Foxcroft knocks John Bapst from baseball’s unbeaten ranks
  • Greenville native Cota a mogul on the mountain
  • Penquis coach: Personal attacks on Lee coach, racial epithets are unfair, cowardly

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    Historical Society to meet
    DOVER-FOXCROFT,  Maine – The Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m.  Wednesday, June 6, in the Gerrish Meeting room at Thayer Parkway. Chris Maas ...
     
    Mayo Regional Hospital awarded Leadership Award
    DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine  - VHA Inc., the national health care network, awarded a VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence to Mayo Regional Hospital at its annual Leadership Conference ...
     
    Local student honored with Leadership Award
    DOVER FOXCROFT, Maine -  Foxcroft Academy Senior Lucy McDermott was recognized for her outstanding leadership skills by the Kiwanis Club of Dover-Foxcroft in a ceremony in the Kiwanis Park on Saturday, May ...
     
    Dover-Foxcroft student receives award
    DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine - Molly Herring, of Dover Foxcroft, received the Computer Information Systems Award from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. at the schools’ 149th commencement on ...
     
    BBQ Chicken Supper
    BROWNVILLE JUNCTION, Maine – St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church is sponsoring a public BBQ Chicken Supper from 5 to -6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 9, at ...