AUGUSTA – The Maine Connectivity Authority has earned a new $30 million federal grant to improve broadband infrastructure in Maine.

By Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News Staff Are you confused about the various rate hikes that will be in your electric bill on July 1? You are not alone.

GUILFORD — Puritan Medical Products — the world’s most trusted manufacturer of swabs — announced that the company will attend two international trade shows this summer, exhibiting its world-renowned swabs and other products.

Observer photo/Jeannette Hughes TORCH RUN — Officers from Dover-Foxcroft Police Department, Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office, Milo Police Department, Maine Warden Service, Maine State Police, and some younger runners all took turns carrying the torch 8-plus miles from Guilford to Dover-Foxcroft in a Special Olympics Torch Run on June 8.

GUILFORD — Local educators Olivia Dow and Jessica Buckingham will join Pine Tree Camp staff this summer when Pine Tree Society brings “Camp on the Road” to Guilford.

“Behind the rock walls in Sebec we have been working on an amazing project,” says Joi Stevens of Rockwall Doodles.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County has never had a logo of its own, instead various emblems and icons have been used over the years.

GUILFORD – A proposed 2023-24 SAD 4 budget totaling $8,473,000 was approved during the evening of May 24 at the annual district budget meeting held in the Piscataquis Community Elementary School cafeteria.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will be giving away tomato seedlings at various locations in Piscataquis County from May 30 to June 7.

Ten members of the Piscataquis Region Retired Educators Association met on May 23 at the Thompson Free Library in Dover-Foxcroft.

American Legion Conner-Trafton Post 119 of Guilford will be conducting three Memorial Day Ceremonies on Monday, May 29.

Grade 12, highest honors: Emma Calnan, Gabriella Clark, Kendall Kimball, Saia Miles, Maria Fernanda, and Pinheiro Velame; high honors: Samantha Goodwin, Jarrin Grant, Sydney Grenier, Jennifer Lonergan, Norah MacMahon, Christina Maguire, and Christopher Maguire; honors: Chad Bush, Maximillan Daehn, Braeden Gerry, Hunter Ronco, Molly Sipple, Gracie Talbot, Katelynn White, Meriel  Willey, and Anna Zimmerman.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis Environmental Education Collaborative and Maine TREE have organized a Green Jobs Fair for two area middle school classes, Piscataquis Community Elementary School sixth grade and SeDoMoCha Middle School seventh grade.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The JD Foundation will hold its seventh annual Walk/Run to Wake the Silence on the morning of Saturday, June 3.

A program that launched in October 2021 has mostly reversed a major Maine hospital system’s shortage of emergency medical technicians after staffing dropped 30 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

GUILFORD — One week after her 98th birthday, Barbara (Ladd) Reardon was presented the Boston Post Cane from Guilford Town Manager Johanna Turner.

EAST SANGERVILLE — A large crowd was in attendance for the annual Spring Brunch Sunday hosted by the Piscataquis County Democrats on May 7.