Piscataquis County News

A front-page report in the Jan. 25, 1963, Springfield Daily News covered the B-52 crash in Maine.

MILO, Maine - No problems were discovered in the town's financial records in an audit ordered in response to the resignation early last month of Town Manager Jeffrey Gahagan, Police Chief Damien Pickel said Wednesday.

Rev. John Weeks and his wife, Linda, stand in front of Holy Spirit Missions Church and Shelter in Parkman on Thursday, May 21, 2012.

Shelia Gatcomb, Executive Director and Educational Coordinator of the Piscataquis County Soil & Water Conservation District, visited the Stewart Free Library in Corinna to present a Maine Arbor Week program on May 12.

Wednesday is the deadline for groups interested in opening a charter school to file an application with the state.

There was at least one surprise among the five organizations that have applied to open charter schools in Maine.

May 16, 2012 -- AUGUSTA, Maine -- Although cellphone use has become more prevalent over the past decade, the way 911 calls are handled from cellular customers largely has remained the same.

Piscataquis County Commissioners held a meeting this morning in Dover Foxcroft in regards to the proposed east-west highway that would run from Coburn Gore to Calais.

Before 2011, Nicole Snow had moved in and out of 10 communities in a five-year period to keep up with her husband Michael's engineering job.

Dover-Foxcroft - Cianbro Chairman and CEO Peter Vigue was in Piscataquis County Tuesday explaining his plan for a 2-thousand foot wide East-West corridor but the proposed project is not sitting well with many local redisdents.

Several people hold up signs protesting the proposed east-west highway while the Piscataquis County Commissions meeting goes on inside in Dover-Foxcroft on Tuesday, May 15, 2012.

Bangor area residents will take to the streets in their communities on Saturday, May 19, for the annual AIDS Walk.

The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service , and Maine Forest Service are hosting a series of three free forestry workshops during May and June 2012.

MILO, Maine - Auditors have finished examining the town's financial records in response to the resignation early last month of Town Manager Jeffrey Gahagan amidst an investigation into allegations that $45,000 was missing from a local club for whom he was treasurer , officials said Friday.

Dunkin Donuts Milo will officially celebrate a grand opening on Sunday, May 20 in Milo, Maine in conjunction with a grand reopening for Milo Tradewinds.

Workers for philanthropist and conservationist Roxanne Quimby have blocked more logging roads on Piscataquis County land she owns, but county officials say there does not appear to be the problem there was when she blocked a road last year.

The state of Maine has purchased more than 5,700 acres south of Millinocket in Piscataquis County, including two miles of Seboeis Lake shoreland.

FOXCROFT, Maine -- A man accused in the kidnapping sexual assault and brutal beating of a woman just outside of Greenville last week appeared before a judge Monday.