Piscataquis County News

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

The Maine Warden Service says it has located an 81-year-old Sangerville man who went missing overnight.

Ken Beach, a year-round Whetstone Pond resident in Abbot, talks with Donna Moreland Fichtner, a member of the Piscataquis County Tourism Initiative Subcommittee, at the dedication and unveiling Monday of the new Appalachian Trailhead sign off Route 15 in Monson.

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention/Maine DHHS has determined H1N1 influenza to be widespread in the state.

Four men were rescued from Moosehead Lake on Tuesday morning after the pontoon boat they were traveling in capsized.

According to data from the Maine Real Estate Information System Inc., the number of homes sold in Knox County from July 1 through Sept.

The unemployment rate for Knox County in September was at 7 percent, the same rate as in August.

Maine State Police believe the two Millinocket men they arrested Monday night for burglary of a camp on Mattaseunk Lake in Molunkus Township in Aroostook County committed more than 30 other camp break-ins in a four-county area.

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A Bowerbank man who left his home Thursday to search for his dog and spent the night in the forest after becoming disoriented returned home safely Friday.

A Florida woman who was sexually assaulted by her father from the ages of 5 to 13 said she was alarmed her father allegedly had victimized more young girls in Maine.

A Greenville businessman is facing gross sexual assault charges, after police arrested him Tuesday in a sting operation in Dover-Foxcroft. Authorities say 67 year old Donald Denbow of Shirley owns a barbershop and hired a 14 year old girl to work for him.

TOWNSHIP 1 RANGE 9, Maine - The Piscataquis County Sheriff's Department and the Maine State Police are investigating more than 20 camp break-ins on remote Ambajejus Lake, located off the Golden Road in northern Piscataquis County.

Master Masons throughout Piscataquis County joined the public Saturday to celebrate the life of Moses Greenleaf - Maine's first mapmaker, an author, justice of the peace and pioneer - on the 175th anniversary of his death.

The Piscataquis County commissioners did their part this week to help soothe relations in this remote community about 50 miles north of Greenville.

The notion that Piscataquis County could save money by contracting dispatch services with Penobscot County was dispelled Tuesday.

A Levant motorist who was involved in two motor vehicle accidents a month apart this past spring and tested positive for drugs after both accidents is still behind the wheel driving today.

An unidentified man suffered severe injuries when his pickup truck went off Lake Road near Millinocket on Sunday afternoon, Piscataquis County Sheriffa s Department officials said.

Midcoast retail sales in July were down sharply from a year ago - the 12th straight month that sales have been down from the previous year.

Maine's Department of Conservation says foliage in the northern half of the state is now ranging from 30 to 75 percent toward peak.