AUGUSTA — Twenty one Maine community college students have been named to the All-Maine Academic Team in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement, leadership and service.

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.

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.

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.

BANGOR/DOVER-FOXCROFT — Partners for Peace will host their 2021 annual meeting from 3:30 to 4:30 p.

 Grade 6-8 students to attend four days in-person after April vacation DOVER-FOXCROFT — RSU 68 officials are looking at a proposed 2021-22 budget totaling $12,021,863.

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.

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, businesses across the region have been navigating new methods of operation.

By David Marino Jr.

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.

By David Marino Jr.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — American Legion Post 29 is evaluating capacity based on current restrictions.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Register and join us for a morning bird walk on Sunday, May 2, as we explore springtime birds at the Law Farm.

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.

By Jessica Potila, St.

By David Marino Jr.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff This story will be updated.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre can still apply to USDA Rural development for assistance on a structural update, despite the Piscataquis County Commissioners voting down a letter of support for the project last month.