DEXTER — Before 2023 Dexter and other Maine communities had been able to keep net proceeds from sales of tax-acquired properties that exceeded the amount of taxes owed by the property owner.

GREENVILLE – The Moosehead Marine Museum recently received notification that a $500,000 request for Congressionally Directed Spending was approved.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff Shawn Laatsch has seen five total solar eclipses in his life, but he believes each time seeing the natural phenomenon is just as spectacular as the first.

BREWER — Displaying continued commitment to the health of its patients, colleagues, and community, Northern Light Health has been selected as the newest member of the Health Care Climate Council.

MILO — The National Garden Club Conservation Pledge, “I pledge to protect and conserve the natural resources of the planet Earth and promise to promote education so we may become caretakers of our air, water, forests, land, and wildlife.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli The weather along the swath of eclipse totality from Mexico to Maine is a big unknown.

ABBOT  – Warden K9 Storm and Game Warden Chad Robertson located a missing 71-year-old man in Abbot on the evening of March 16, deep in the woods approximately 1.

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Northern Light CA Dean and Mayo Hospitals will hold naloxone education and distribution events in Dexter, Dover-Foxcroft, Greenville, and Milo: Tuesday, March 26 6:30 p.

Grade 12, high honors: Zachariah Demmer; honors: Emma Brasier, Emily Easler, Summer Nesbit, Tim Van Der Heijden.

MILO — With the municipal audit awaiting completion, over a dozen articles on the warrant for the 2024 annual meeting were not voted on by the two dozen residents gathered in the Ed Wingler Auditorium upstairs at the Milo Town Hall on the evening of March 11.

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Planning Board for some months has been collecting information on fence ordinances in Maine.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff A $30 million bond request meant to bolster existing and develop new trails could be used to repair damage that multiple storms inflicted on the state’s trail system, according to a Maine Trails Coalition spokesperson on March 14.

BROWNVILLE — Reading Is Fundamental is proud to announce that Brownville Elementary has been selected as a winner of its “Rally to Read 100” sweepstakes, a six-month initiative designed to ignite a love of reading for students in grades preK-5 across the country.

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BANGOR — Tiegan Murray of Greenville has been named to Husson University Online’s president’s list for term 3 of the 2023-24 academic year — for attaining a grant point average of 3.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Maine thrift shop that opened in late 2020 has expanded with a second location in Dover-Foxcroft.

Contributed photoSCHOLARSHIP — The Omicron Chapter of DKG Society International, an organization of leading women educators, met on March 4 at the Piscataquis County Ice Arena in Dover-Foxcroft.