Staff Report  GREENVILLE — With solid waste expenses up by $41,062 this year, the town of Greenville is attempting to remove as many items from the waste stream as possible to reduce current transportation and tipping fees, both of which are likely to go up in coming years.

Contributed Article  DEXTER — This summer take a walk through your movie memory with the Harold J.

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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.

DOVER-FOXCROFT —  Anyone coming to the Maine Whoopie Pie Festival on Saturday, June 27 will get treated to an all-day concert by Yellow Brick Road, the premier Elton John tribute band.

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.

Photo courtesy of Bangor Savings Bank COMMUNITY MATTERS MORE RECIPIENT — Marilyn Hartford, Dover-Foxcroft and Greenville branch manager for Bangor Savings Bank, recently presented a $1,000 check from the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation to Dennis Lyford, president of the Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis for being a 2015 Community Matters More winner, which will be used to support the Kiwanis’ backpack program.

BROWNVILLE — Members of the Piscataquis Amateur Radio Club (PARC) will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise June 27–28 at the Stickney Hill repeater site near Field of Dreams plant nursery.