Observer photos/Stuart Hedstrom
    STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS — Members of the 2012-13 Penquis Valley High School boys basketball team received their Class C state championship rings, along with commemorative sweatshirts, during a meal at Hobnobbers Pub in Milo on May 7. The rings are inscribed with the score of the Patriots’ 61-54 victory over Boothbay in the 2013 Class C title game — a contest that was the final tournament game ever held at the Bangor Auditorium — as well as the team’s overall record of 20-1. Penquis Head Coach Tony Hamlin, who after the season ended announced he would be retiring from the position, told his players the rings collectively had a cost of about $4,500, with contributions being made by Bill Sawtell, the Masons, Bailey Lumber, the school and the grandmother of coach Jason Mills — who will be taking over as head coach next season. Hamlin gave each player a personalized letter and he encouraged them to tell the important people in their lives ...
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By Stuart Hedstrom 
Staff Writer
MILO — The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) Main Street Safe Streets project will be going out to bid May 15 following a special town meeting on May 7. The article approved at the meeting includes

By Bill Pearson
Staff Writer
    GUILFORD — “Mr. K can you help me?” is still a familiar refrain heard by retired elementary school teacher Robert Keniston, of Dover-Foxcroft. Keniston, who spent 32 years teaching third- and fourth- graders, is now

    Observer photo/Bill Pearson

CHEERING CELEBRATION — The Dexter Regional High School cheerleading team was represented, from left, by Coach Kacie Ladd, Aaliyah Williams, Emmitt Ross and Phoebe Phillips during a special presentation on May 9 by the Dexter Town Council which recognized the squad for winning the 2013 State and Eastern Maine Class C cheerleading championships. 

By Stuart Hedstrom 
Staff Writer
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — SeDoMoCha Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders had the opportunity to hear from over two dozen speakers, who told them about what they do for a living and how they arrived to where they are from their school days during Career Day on May 6.

By Stuart Hedstrom 
Staff Writer
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — A collaboration between Diane Robinson’s grade 6 class and students of third-grade teacher Jessica Dunton has resulted in a collection of writings and illustrations making up “The SeDoMoCha Animal Book,” which is

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