Get updates from Piscataquis Observer via email, on your phone or read them on follow.it on your own custom news page.
You can filter the news from Piscataquis Observer that get delivered to you using tags or topics or you can opt for all of them. Unsubscription is also very simple.
See the latest news from Piscataquis Observer below.
Site title: Piscataquis Observer
Is this your feed? Claim it!
To the Editor;
Maine’s smallest towns often govern themselves through three person Select Boards, a structure inherited from an era when civic participation was assumed rather than earned and the business of local government was genuinely simpler. In many communities under 500 residents, that assumption no longer holds.
A three person board leaves almost n...
Dexter Regional High School and Foxcroft Academy football games are among the WABI TV-5 broadcast schedule for the 2026 season.
Dexter’s 8-man game against Stearns High School at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4 — the first game under th...
By Al Raychard
I always get a little melancholy this time of year. As much as I dislike the 90-degree temperatures and nearly as much humidity, the end of August and beginning of September mean meteorological and astronomical summer are coming to an end. Winter gets closer with each passing day.
It also means something else. Maine’s wild blueberry season i...
By Susan Bard, Bangor Daily News Staff
Fourteen years ago, Matt Knox shot his first bear. It became Maine’s current state record for a bear killed with a firearm, with a live weight of 699 pounds.
Even more impressive, it was taken over bait.
...DEXTER — Students across the Dexter area will be starting classes soon with the first full day of school for all in SAD 46 on Thursday, Aug. 27.
Administrators have been preparing for the 2026-27 academic year, and they updated the district directors during an Aug. 19 school board meeting at the Ridge View Community School.
Freshmen and new Dexter Regional...