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Serving the interest of Piscataquis County. Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom 28-POINT PERFORMANCE — Penquis freshman Jake Haffenreffer goes up for two points during the fourth quarter of a Dec. 28 game vs. Greenville.
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Serving the interest of Piscataquis County. By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff The children of the legendary Maine singer-songwriter David Mallett recalled their father as a man fiercely devoted to the things he loved: his music, his family, and his home state of Maine.
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Serving the interest of Piscataquis County. SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan Savings Bank announced that David Cyr, president and CEO of the bank, will retire at the end of 2025 and the board of directors have appointed Dan Tilton, executive vice president of sales and customer relations, as the bank’s new president.
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David W. Shorey of Falmouth, ME, passed away peacefully at his home on December 14, 2024. David was born in Cortland, NY, on March 15, 1954, to Marilyn Elizabeth Dow and Maynard Wiswell Shorey.
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Northern Light Health is not paying a fee to acquire Mayo from the 13 towns that collectively own the institution -- that’s one of the arguments in a new lawsuit seeking to block the deal. But supporters of the merger have said that it will nonetheless provide something for the people who use Mayo Regional Hospital and its affiliated practices: the …
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Serving the interest of Piscataquis County. By Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News Staff Investigations into the Oxford County sheriff over the last year drew public attention to how he traded guns from the evidence room to a local gun store without seeking permission from the original gun owners, keeping financial records of the deal or telling officials responsible for finances about it.
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Serving the interest of Piscataquis County. SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan Savings Bank announced that David Cyr, president and CEO of the bank, will retire at the end of 2025 and the board of directors have appointed Dan Tilton, executive vice president of sales and customer relations, as the bank’s new president.
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Serving the interest of Piscataquis County. By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine had near-record bear and deer seasons and a successful moose hunt in 2024, according to biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and …
These laws will affect your outdoor experience in Maine in 2025
6 days ago · Here are the new laws affecting some of those outdoor sports: Boating. Emergency legislation established legal noise limits for airboats, which the state defined as a flat-bottomed watercraft with an aircraft-type propeller that uses either a plane or automotive engine to power it. It also separated airboats from other motorboats. Under the new law, the noise limits may not exceed 90 decibels ...
Power outages affect Maine communities Monday afternoon
3 days ago · By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff. Nearly 5,000 households in Piscataquis County were without power on Monday afternoon. According to Versant Power, the outages mainly affected the greater Milo area.Around 4,723 customers were affected as …