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2 weeks ago | 
observer-me.com | Stuart Hedstrom
GREENVILLE — For several months the Greenville Planning Board has been considering several zoning changes to allow some properties to be used for different purposes than are currently permitted. A public hearing on the proposed adjustments was held during the Greenville Planning Board meeting on April 2.
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2 weeks ago | 
observer-me.com | Stuart Hedstrom
GREENVILLE — Greenville Police Chief Jim Carr updated the select board about a number of department initiatives from the last year-plus during an April 2 meeting, including the fact the department responded to close to 1,500 calls in 2024. Working on a compilation of statistics for the state, a total of 1,496 calls were handled by the Greenville Police Department last year or 20 more than the year prior. “Which doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s 400 more than 2020,” Carr said.
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2 weeks ago | 
observer-me.com | Stuart Hedstrom
BREWER — Timothy Dentry, president and CEO, has announced his pending retirement from Northern Light Health this calendar year. Dentry has served as president and CEO of Northern Light Health for five years, previously serving as the organization’s chief operating officer beginning in 2016.
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3 weeks ago | 
observer-me.com | Stuart Hedstrom
MILO — Officials in SAD 41 are developing the budget for the 2025-26 academic year, with a tentative date of May 19 being planned for the annual district budget meeting. The school board’s finance committee has been meeting regularly, Superintendent Darcie Fournier said during the April 2 board meeting at the Penquis Valley School. The budget is being revised and refined to be brought to the directors at the next regular meeting on Wednesday, May 7.
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3 weeks ago | 
observer-me.com | Stuart Hedstrom
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft town manager search will continue after a candidate for the position withdrew her candidacy following a 3-3 vote by the select board on the appointment last week. Lois Jones, a resident of Dover-Foxcroft who has been town manager in Bradford, Sangerville and more recently in Corinna, has withdrawn her candidacy during a special select meeting on Monday, Select Board Chair Tom Lizotte announced.
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3 weeks ago | 
observer-me.com | Stuart Hedstrom
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The cost to surrender a key license for the downtown Mayo Mill Dam on the Piscataquis River will be paid in one lump sum, pending voter approval, the Dover-Foxcroft Select Board ruled during a March 26 meeting. The select board opted to abandon plans to pursue hydropower at the Mayo Mill Dam earlier this month, due in large part to a lack of financial sustainability, and also to surrender its dam operating license.
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4 weeks ago | 
observer-me.com | Stuart Hedstrom
GREENVILLE — For several months the Greenville Planning Board has been considering several zoning changes to allow some properties to be used for different purposes than are currently permitted. These include some parcels going from the commercial industrial zone to the adjacent village zone and reclassifying a portion of the Hammond Lumber property to allow for the construction of a large storage building.
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4 weeks ago | 
observer-me.com | Stuart Hedstrom
GREENVILLE — To clear up any confusion on whether a series of land use ordinance amendments that change how far away a structure must be from the property lines in certain sections of town were approved in full or not earlier in the month, the Greenville Select Board took and passed another motion on the item during a March 19 meeting. Greenville Planning Board Chair John Contreni said he brought the proposed land use ordinance amendments to the select board two weeks prior.
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1 month ago | 
thecounty.me | Stuart Hedstrom
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine – Applications are now being accepted for the Aroostook Civic Academy, a volunteer-driven initiative launched several years ago by the Aroostook Agency on Aging. The Agency is convening the fourth cohort of its innovative Civic Academy program, a six-week class designed to build the skills necessary to advocate for change in your community.
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1 month ago | 
observer-me.com | Julie Harris |Stuart Hedstrom
By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News StaffMaine is trying to keep an invasive fish out of the state’s largest lake. The question is whether that is possible. Moosehead Lake, one of Maine’s most important cold-water fisheries and home to native brook trout and landlocked salmon, already struggles with an increasing abundance of native lake trout plus invasive bass, yellow perch and white perch. But there is a new threat on the horizon: Northern pike.
