Guilford News

The people in a school district in Piscataquis county have taken the unusual step of voting to close two schools.

Over 60 third-graders from Dover-Foxcroft are now the proud owners of new dictionaries.

Smoke poured from the eves and roof of a Grove Street home owned by Clay Lane in Guilford Monday as Guilford, Sangerville and Dover-Foxcroft firefighters worked to extinguish a fire that reportedly was electrical in nature.

Something new has wiggled its way into the Guilford Primary School. It's called the Bookworm Reading Program.

Sangerville selectmen were asked Thursday why a Willimantic property owner could dump his gray water in the Guilford-Sangerville Sanitary District plant when residents of the two towns could not.

SAD 4 Superintendent Paul Stearns recalled listening in recently on a Department of Education teleconference call and hearing officials refer to Regional School Unit 4 and its financial figures.

ELLIOTSVILLE, Maine a ' A Monson motorist turned himself in Sunday morning after he allegedly left the scene of an accident that injured three passengers the previous night.

A five-count lawsuit filed on Aug. 4 by a Sangerville resident against a former Sangerville town manager has been moved from Piscataquis County Superior Court to the U.S. District Court in Bangor.

BUCKSPORT : Friday, Aug. 21, at 7 p.m., the Quintessential Winds will perform classical to Broadway and jazz tunes at Elm Street Congregational Church, 31 Elm St.

A former deputy sheriff who served the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Department for 40 years was among several people recognized by Sheriff John Goggin at a gathering Thursday at Ava's Restaurant.

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Redevelopment plans for the former Moosehead Manufacturing Building in Dover-Foxcroft are being put in motion.

Authorities are investigating the death of a Guilford man found floating in a Dexter stream.

Two boys and a girl who were riding their bicycles along Route 23 on Monday found a dead body floating faceup in Main Stream.

Several businesses in Piscataquis County are hoping to find out who broke into their stores.

Police on Tuesday encouraged Piscataquis County businesses to be on the alert for what they believe to be a band of burglars making rounds in the region.

Lightning from a violent thunderstorm that ripped across central and eastern parts of the state early Friday morning is the likely cause of fires that nearly consumed a summer house on Isle Au Haut and a home in Guilford.

Richard Ridley Jr., 31, of Bangor was injured Wednesday when his car struck a telephone pole on Route 150 in Parkman.

A Guilford man who ran a daycare facility in Sangerville has been indicted on charges of possessing child pornography.

A Piscataquis County grand jury handed up indictments Thursday against a Sangerville man for possession of sexually explicit images of children and two Sebec residents who allegedly bilked nearly $20,000 from an elderly blind man.