By Sam Schipani, Bangor Daily News Staff With ticks on the rise in Maine this year, intrepid outdoorsy folks are getting creative with methods for keeping ticks at bay.

MILO — A proposed 2021-22 SAD 41 budget totaling $10,217,483 was approved June 15 during the annual district budget meeting held in the Walter “Eddie” Oakes Gymnasium at Penquis Valley High School.

Many of the events will likely not be happening as listed below due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Mainers who put off building a new deck or doing other renovations to their homes because of outrageously high lumber prices can breathe a tentative sigh of relief, as those prices appear to finally be going down.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — After recently replacing a ladder truck, the Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department will also be switching out a 1999 pumper truck for a new model sometime in 2022.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A teacher who taught generations of students over three decades at the former Morton Avenue Elementary School and was a friend to pupils, parents, colleagues and neighbors alike will be remembered with a memorial bench.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District is very excited to announce that we will be collaborating with Widdershins Farm LLC again this summer! Widdershins is a local farm in Dover-Foxcroft offering a wide variety of services and products and includes a creamery and farm store that is open seven days a week.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Denny Breau will be performing a live concert at the Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft at 7 p.

The first-ever courtesy boat inspections in the Moosehead region are underway at the Lower Wilson Pond public boat ramp.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Anna Shaw Buck Prize for Excellence in Written Spanish: Caleb Fockens C.

Composite photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High School STUDENTS OF THE MONTH — Dexter Regional High School is pleased to announce the May Students of the Month as selected by the faculty and staff for being exemplary students.

Please join Moosehead Trails volunteers and Bureau of Parks and Lands staff for a fun day of hiking and trail maintenance in the scenic Little Moose Unit, just south of Moosehead Lake.

By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News Staff This summer is predicted to be a bad one for browntail moth caterpillar outbreaks in the state.

DEXTER — On behalf of the citizens of Dexter, the Dexter Sunrise Kiwanis has been presented with the community’s 2021 Spirit of America Award.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Extension will offer a webinar about irrigation for the home garden from 6–7:15 p.

An interim president, new leadership of the Board of Directors and the election of three board members mark a significant transition at the Maine Community Foundation.

GUILFORD — A day after residents of the six SAD 4 communities approved a $7,448,288 budget for 2021-22, the school board formally approved the votes and set the assessments for the towns during a June 9 meeting in the Piscataquis Community Elementary School cafeteria.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High SchoolMAINE MUSICALE — Cally Gudroe was the overall winner for Dexter Regional High School of the “Manie Musicale” competition in the French classes.