University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will offer over 50 summer learning activities throughout July and August for all youth ages 5–18.

AARP Maine is seeking nominations for its 2020 AARP Andrus Award for Community Service, which honors those individuals who are sharing their experience, talent and skills to enrich the lives of their community members.

As debates rage on in Maine and around the country about the removal of monuments and renaming of buildings and locales named for slave owners, racists and other historical figures with problematic stories, other influential Mainers had similarly checkered pasts — even if there are no statues or buildings named for them.

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DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Highlands Classical Chamber Ensemble will present a “Concert of Summer Celebration” at 6:30 p.

Movie theaters around Maine may be back in business under Gov.

GREENVILLE — On June 30 NASA selected Pepin Associates for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program to develop formable, high temperature materials in support of several NASA programs.

The Maine Department of Education continues to work with educators and health experts from across the state to develop health markers and corresponding plans to ensure the safe return to classroom instruction.

Have you been able to do genealogical research during the pandemic? With libraries and other resources closed I used the internet.

BREWER — Kathy Corey has been elected as the next chair of the Northern Light Health Board of Directors.

GUILFORD — Piscataquis Community School Elementary and Middle School students are receiving their yearbooks free this year, compliments of the H.

WILLIAMSBURG — After high demand, the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District (PCSWCD) is pleased to present another wild edible foraging workshop on Saturday, Aug.

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

Thanks to a pair of alert Bangor Daily News readers, an eighth Confederate soldier’s grave has been located in Maine.

MILO — A school-based summer lunch program that serves SAD 41 children in Milo, LaGrange and Brownville has been halted this week after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.

The Fourth of July fireworks in Dexter have been postponed until Labor Day (details to be announced).

DOVER-FOXCROFT — We are living in a time of great stress: people and the Earth are sick, angry, afraid, dispirited and dying.

I just spent five days in the North Maine Woods surveying birds for the Maine Bird Atlas during the first week of June.