A former Greenville police chief was arrested and charged with criminal threatening, according to the Piscataquis County District Attorney’s Office.

MILO — The town of Milo wants to build a public safety building to house its police, fire and public works departments.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County Commissioners rejected a request for $5,000 that would have allowed the county’s economic development council and a consulting firm to proceed with a broadband expansion project.

The 1-month-old infant who died at his Milo home in late August had been beaten to the point that he had several fractured bones and cuts on his organs, according to court documents that a Piscataquis County Superior Court justice unsealed on Monday.

A judge on Monday ordered that a Guilford man accused of assault and firing three gunshots be held on $20,000 cash bail, according to the district attorney’s office.

GREENVILLE — Greenville’s new fire chief is special.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County Commissioners expressed disappointment in a recent broadband study, reiterating that they would prioritize and dedicate American Rescue Plan funds to radio communications upgrades for the county’s emergency responders.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine State Police is working to pull back its patrol responsibilities in Penobscot County as part of a yearslong effort to reduce its presence in rural parts of the state.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff CHARLESTON – A Lewiston man convicted 16 years ago of sex crimes against children has died at the minimum security prison in Charleston.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff WARREN – A man convicted of beating his neighbor to death more than 30 years ago has died at the Maine State Prison.

ABBOT — An old two-story farmhouse in Abbot was destroyed when an indoor wood stove sparked a fire that enveloped the structure Tuesday afternoon.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County has selected a Bangor firm to oversee the design and budgeting for a project that will add 100 beds to its chronically overcrowded jail and include a number of renovations to the more than 160-year-old facility.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Nearly a month after the Dover-Foxcroft Selectboard authorized the demolition and removal of structures on the property at 72 Lincoln St.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County should spend millions of dollars it is receiving from the federal government on transitional and affordable housing as well as boosting access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment.

Beaver Cove officials have created the town’s first ever emergency operations plan to have resources in place for disasters such as ice storms and power outages and keep residents safe.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Commissioners agreed in September to provide $7,000 to the town of Brownville for a slope study.

AUGUSTA — More than 20,000 people died on U.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County has scheduled a series of in-person and remote meetings to gather community input on how to spend $29.