By Troy Bennett, Bangor Daily News Staff Amid a dearth of official, tourist-related promotion or planning, an ad hoc group of Greenville friends and business owners is working to welcome the throng of celestial sky-watchers expected to descend on their village next month for the solar eclipse.

Grade eight, high honors: Lexi Bjornson-Burgess, Harloe Boulier, Effie Brochu, Ava Dunton, Nolan Guthrie, Jaedon Haack, Ryleigh Herbest, Charles Johnston, Alicen Kane, Kendall Killam; honors: Henry Day, Sophia Day, Zoey Eakright, Mason Hachey, Ella Hutchinson, Annabelle Turgeon.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff While Mainers pull the final elements together for total solar eclipse festivities next month, for some folks, this is not their first go-round with such a rare celestial event.

By Ron Chase Six of us awoke early in the bunkhouse at South Branch Pond Campground on the second day of our recent winter expedition into Baxter State Park with the goal of climbing North Traveler Mountain.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff A Maine judge who failed field sobriety tests with a blood alcohol content nearly double the legal limit was acquitted of operating under the influence after a jury trial.

By Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News Staff State evaluators failed to carefully review bids by two local organizations competing against an out-of-state company for a massive contract to arrange transportation for Medicaid patients who have no other ride to medical appointments, the nonprofits’ attorneys argued before an appeal panel last week.

Bill Jarvis has no idea how many visitors will descend on Jackman, the western Maine town of fewer than 800 people, for the total solar eclipse.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff A bill awaiting the governor’s signature will require two of the state’s departments that deal with fisheries to be responsible for a plan to keep invasive species from taking over waters important to native fish.

Grade 8, high honors: Raelynn Anderson, Adam Brown, Ava Brown, Kaitlyn Cookson, Callie Cox, Keegan Cromwell, Hannah Derosier, Aubrey Ladd, Allaynah Rolfe, Sherisa Williams, Lily Wintle; honors: Jackson Clark, Jerimiah Cobb.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff After more than 30 years traveling throughout the U.

PARKMAN – The Parkman Grange has a busy spring planned starting with their Daddy Daughter Dance on Saturday, April 13 from 6-8 p.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine has set a goal to ensure all 4-year-olds can attend public prekindergarten by the fall of 2026, but it may not meet that target unless the state’s school funding formula changes to encourage wider adoption, agreed educators, a policy analyst, state officials and a legislative commission.

GREENVILLE — Congressionally directed spending requests for rehabilitating the steamboat Katahdin and constructing new Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation antennas have been granted at $500,000 and $3,342,000 respectively.

By Kevin Miller, Maine Public Maine will add two new public defender offices under a bill that passed the Legislature and was signed by Gov.

By Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News Staff Two organizations are appealing the Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to award a potentially $1 billion contract to an out-of-state company, with a history of complaints, to arrange transportation for Medicaid patients who have no other way to get to doctor appointments, dialysis and cancer treatments.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily New Staff Two Bangor city councilors and one former councilor are running for a seat on the Penobscot County Commission in the June primary election.

How do you organize a solar eclipse party? You have to “planet” of course! On Monday, April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross over North America, with 13 states from Texas to Maine directly in the path of totality.

LEWISTON — Jacob Raynes of Dover-Foxcroft was named to the dean’s list at Bates College for the fall/winter semester ending in December 2023.