4 years ago State bureau amending use plan for Little Moose Mountain to allow for 25 miles of mountain bike trails The outdoor recreation attractions in and around the Moosehead Lake region could soon include up to 25 miles of mountain bike trails on Little Moose Mountain Public Reserved Land.
4 years ago Bangor Savings Bank donates nearly $1.2M in past year to COVID-19 relief efforts BANGOR — With 2020 certain to be remembered for COVID-19 and social unrest, Bangor Savings Bank focused its charitable giving in precisely those areas and finished its fiscal year with nearly $1.
4 years ago Dover-Foxcroft’s Jim Robinson secures naming rights to new Foxcroft Academy Field House Groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for May 3 DOVER-FOXCROFT — Jim Robinson, a 1959 Foxcroft Academy graduate and owner of A.
4 years ago Maine Highlands FCU raises $17K to end hunger Even though it was a difficult year for fundraising in 2020, Maine Highlands Federal Credit was able to raise over $17,000 for the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger.
4 years ago Bradford now providing adult case management services DOVER-FOXCROFT – Charley Bradford, a graduate of Thomas College, has begun to see adults who are eligible to receive community integration (adult case management) services at Community Health and Counseling Services.
4 years ago Maine counties chafe at lower-than-expected payments from wind farms By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff For nearly two decades, commercial wind farms have been touted in Maine as a way to generate electricity without pollution, and as a way rural locales in Maine can generate revenue for themselves by hosting turbines worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
4 years ago Partners for Peace to host annual meeting online April 15 BANGOR/DOVER-FOXCROFT — Partners for Peace will host their 2021 annual meeting from 3:30 to 4:30 p.
4 years ago Associated Builders and Contractors honors Cianbro with National Excellence in Construction Award for Puritan project PITTSFIELD — In April of 2020 Puritan Medical Products, one of two major manufacturers of COVID-19 testing swabs, reached out to Cianbro in desperate need of expanding from their Guilford facility to meet the ever-growing demand for testing swabs.
4 years ago PCEDC looks to the future at quarterly meeting More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, businesses across the region have been navigating new methods of operation.
4 years ago Theater that county commissioners refused to support will apply for federal grant By David Marino Jr.
4 years ago Public hearing on Moosehead Lake ski resort project TIF set for April 20 DOVER-FOXCROFT — A public hearing on tax increment financing for the project to develop a ski resort with year-round attractions on 1,700 acres overlooking Moosehead Lake in the unorganized territory outside of Greenville will be part of the next regular Piscataquis County Commissioners meeting at 8:30 a.
4 years ago Puritan thinks COVID-19 testing swabs will be in demand even as vaccines pick up By David Marino Jr.
4 years ago D-F Legion looking at bingo options DOVER-FOXCROFT — American Legion Post 29 is evaluating capacity based on current restrictions.
4 years ago Maine gets record share of COVID-19 vaccine doses as small pharmacies join federal program By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine is seeing a record of at least 88,000 new first doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week as the supply to retail pharmacies through a federal program jumped nearly 50 percent with the addition of independent pharmacies.
4 years ago Aroostook County ice carousel is ready to spin for Maine’s bid to reclaim world record By Jessica Potila, St.
4 years ago Northern Light has turned Bangor’s Cross Center into a well-oiled vaccination machine By David Marino Jr.