By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County has hired a lobbyist to work behind the scenes at the State House to push for state funding of a new jail and more deputies — services usually primarily funded by county governments — highlighting the challenges that the county views as most dire.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff After 54 years in operation, an Orono-based search and rescue nonprofit organization will close at the end of November due its dwindling and aging membership.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Dover-Foxcroft residents will gather at 9 a.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — After several weeks serving in an interim capacity, Sgt.

MILO — An 84-year-old Milo man faces an attempted murder charge after allegedly pointing a loaded gun at the police chief’s head and threatening to kill him earlier this month.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County’s commissioners agreed during a meeting Tuesday to seek bids for a roof repair project for the sheriff’s office patrol building in Guilford.

GREENVILLE — Before the Greenville fire station can be demolished and replaced with a new public safety building, the Minden Street structure needs to be cleared out.

MILO — Many of the articles making up the warrant for the 2023 annual town meeting were not voted on by residents gathered in the Ed Wingler Auditorium upstairs at the Milo Town Hall on the evening of March 13.

GREENVILLE — A couple and two children who became stranded out on the ice on Moosehead Lake during a severe winter storm were rescued late in the night on March 14 by a group of both Maine Game Warden and Passamaquoddy Game Warden trainees who were in the area.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff The Englishmen whose rowdy, drunken behavior caused a plane to be diverted to Bangor International Airport on Jan.

Police in Boston, Massachusetts, have located a Guilford woman missing from Maine since early March.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine State Police is urging legislators in Augusta to kill two bills that would provide state funding for new patrol positions within the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office.

Contributed photo MASONIC CONTRIBUTION — On March 6 Penobscot Masonic Lodge #39 of Dexter in association with the Maine Masonic Charitable Foundation presented a check for $1,500 to the Dexter Fire Department.

BREWER — The Penobscot County Emergency Management Agency, in collaboration with the Maine Emergency Management Agency, will host a Volunteer Fair on Saturday, March 25 from 10 a.

DEXTER — As the result of a joint fentanyl trafficking investigation among MDEA’s North Central Task Force and the Dexter Police Department, a Dexter man, his son, and a female have been charged with drug trafficking offenses.

DEXTER — Per a request made by an establishment in town, the Dexter Town Council amended an ordinance on marijuana businesses during a March 9 meeting.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The administrator of the Penobscot County Jail in Bangor has died.

MILO — In January the town of Milo was awarded $6,375,000 in federal money to construct a new public safety building to house the fire, police, and public works departments.