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MILO — The Milo Fire Department has located a vehicle that would replace a more than 40-year-old ladder truck. “We found a ladder truck that we want to bid in on,” Fire Chief Matt Demers said during a Feb.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The process to move the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center from cramped conditions in the Piscatquis County Jail in Dover-Foxcroft into the administrative unit of the sheriff’s office in Guilford has begun. The Piscataquis County Commissioners learned a bit more during a meeting on Tuesday, Feb.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Officials in RSU 68 are in the midst of developing the budget for the 2024-25 academic year. During a meeting Tuesday evening, Feb.

GREENVILLE — In late April 2022 Gov. Janet Mills signed an “An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions” or LD 2003.

GREENVILLE — Located downtown on the Lily Bay Road, the Shaw Public Library serves residents of Greenville and surrounding communities and visitors to the Moosehead Lake Region alike. Library staff, volunteers, and the 5-member board of trustees are continually looking at how to best provide resources for those coming through doors through a strategic plan, which Shaw Public Library Trustees President Jolene Staruch discussed with the Greenville Select Board during a Jan.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis Valley Adult Education Cooperative Director Dr. Joshua McNaughton updated the RSU 68 school board on a number of organization programs during a meeting at the SeDoMoCha School on Tuesday evening, Jan.

GREENVILLE — The new home of the Greenville Fire and Police Departments will be operational sometime early in the new year.  “The public safety building is very, very near completion,” Town Manager Mike Roy said during a Dec.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – The name is changing but the price Piscataquis County will be paying for trash disposal from the Unorganized Territories will remain the same for the short term. The Piscataquis County Commissioners signed an interim waste disposal agreement with GRACE, LLC of Orrington during a meeting Tuesday morning (a session postponed  seven days due to the storm a week prior).

By Matthew Gagnon On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a ruling that sent shockwaves through the political world. In a 4-3 decision, the court ruled that Donald Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president and will thus be removed from the primary ballot in Colorado.

A wind and rain storm that left nearly 420,000 across Maine without power knocked out electricity across Piscataquis County and the surrounding areas Monday into Tuesday and beyond for some, forcing schools and businesses to close, and flooded many roads including some of the major travelways. On its Facebook page, the Piscataquis County Emergency Management Agency is keeping a regularly updated list of road closures and openings from nearly a dozen communities.