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• Penquis region March of Dimes walk on May 3

       DOVER-FOXCROFT — The annual Penquis region March for Babies event for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation is scheduled this year for Sunday, May 3. The three-mile walk has been held locally every year since 1975, and is one of two dozen planned throughout Maine to raise funds for March of Dimes’ programs that save babies from birth defects, pre-term labor and low birthweight.
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• Villages tour to set up shop in Sangerville

  By Josh Salm  
  Staff Writer
  

      SANGERVILLE — The town of two knights will have a new sign in its downtown in the near future.
      The Villages of Piscataquis County group received approval from the Board of Selectmen on Thursday to install one of its interpretive historic signs on a grassy plot of land that used to be owned by Numberall.
      The group’s chair, Gayle Watson, spoke to the board Thursday about the proj...

• UMO group eyes Milo, Caribou for study of media in rural communities

  By Elyse Kahl
  Special to the Observer
  

      ORONO — The face of news is changing. The way people receive news and the value of it differs from community to community. Milo and Caribou will be among four towns to be featured in a University of Maine professor’s research project and documentary to focus on the importance of news in rural Maine towns.
      Sunny Skye Hughes, assistant professor of communications and journalism at the University of ...

• Tracy J. Burrill “Burly”

  Burrill, Tracy J., 35, Barnard Township and Exeter, in Bernard Township, April 25, 2009. Services will be held 1 p.m., April 30, at Church of the Nazarene, Dover.
  

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• George F. “Frankie” Foss

  Foss, George F., 73, Parkman and Harmony, in Dover-Foxcroft, April 26, 2009. Friends may call 6-8 p.m., April 29, at the Lary Funeral Home, Dover-Foxcroft.
  

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• Committal Notices

  SANGERVILLE—Graveside committal services for Bobbie Jo Hall, 51, who died April 7, 2009, will be held Friday, May 1st at 3 p.m. at the Sangerville Village Cemetery, with Pastor Stephen Dean officiating. Arrangements by Crosby & Neal, Guilford. For a complete obituary, go to www.CrosbyNeal.com.

  Brownville and Bangor – A graveside funeral service for Doris Mae Jenkins, who died December 22, 2008, in Bangor, will be conducted 10 a.m. Friday, May 1, 2009, at the family lot in Evergreen Cemetery, Milo, with Pastor David Mumford o...

• Kiwanis dedicate canoe race to former chairman

  By Josh Salm  
  Staff Writer
  

      DOVER-FOXCROFT and GUILFORD — In years past, canoeists and kayakers only had to worry about their position to the other competitors in each race class, and not necessarily about the time itself. It was a quirk about the Piscataquis Canoe Race that separated itself from other races in the region.
  
  

  

• PCHS withstands late game rally by Patriots

  By Stuart Hedstrom
  Staff Writer
  

      GUILFORD — The PCHS softball team held off a seventh inning rally attempt by Penquis Valley High School to earn its first victory of the season on April 24.
  
  

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• High school sports roundup

      April 22: Foxcroft baseball opened the season with a 17-0 win at PCHS. Mitchell Fadley tossed a no-hitter with 10 strikeouts in five innings. Jamie Nason and Ryan Olmstead both had three hits.
      Foxcroft softball won at PCHS 10-6. Kelsey Boss had 10 strikeouts for the Ponies, and Courtney Withee scored three runs. Samara Hooper had an RBI double for PCHS.
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• Turkey season opens Monday; Youth Only Day Saturday

      AUGUSTA – Maine’s spring Wild Turkey hunting season opens Saturday (May 2) with a Youth Only Day to encourage young people to learn about the sport, and for adults it opens on Monday (May 4).
      Hunters must have a valid Spring Wild Turkey Permit and a valid Maine resident hunting license, or a valid nonresident or alien big game hunting license in order to hunt turkey. A valid archery license also permits hunting of wild turkey with bow and arrow in Maine.
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• Study: Soft plastic lures harming Maine’s trout, salmon

      AUGUSTA – The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is strongly encouraging anglers to protect Maine’s fish by changing from soft plastic lures to biodegradable ones.
      Maine fisheries biologists are reporting increasing numbers of angled trout and salmon with indigestible soft plastic lures in their stomachs, according to John Boland, IFW Fisheries Division Director. A discarded soft plastic lure consumed innocently by a brook trout from the bottom of a freshwater shoal likely remains...

• SPORTS ON TAP

  
  

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          Wednesday, April 29 — BASEBALL: Lee at Dexter, 4:30 p.m.; Penobscot Valley at PCHS, 4:30 p.m.; SOFTBALL: Lee at Dexter, 4:30 p.m.; Penobscot Valley at PCHS, 4:30 p.m.;TENNIS: Foxcroft vs. John Bapst at the Bangor Indoor Tennis Club, 4 p.m.; Lee at Dexter, 4 p.m.
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• Piscataquis County Emergency Services Dispatch Log

  Friday, April 17
  3:20 p.m. A vehicle broke down. Dover-Foxcroft.
  3:37 p.m. He got a strange package in his mailbox and requested an officer check it. Parkman.
  3:17 p.m. They reported a 57-year-old missing male. Williamsburg.
  7:53 p.m. They reported finding a backpack with a laptop at the playground. Guilford.
  8:00 p.m. He requested to speak to an officer about giving up his guns. Brownville.
  8:02 p.m. They received several calls about a controlled burn. Abbot.
  8:05 p.m. They reported an unpermitted brush fire. Abbo...

• 4-H news

  Children go rock climbing

      ORONO — Twenty-five youth in the Milo 4-H afterschool program took part in a rock climbing experience at the University of Maine. Trained individuals taught the youth the importance of wearing a harness, how to climb the wall safely using their feet and the right places for them to place their hands on their ropes. The climbing center features a 32-foot climbing tower and a 45 by 12-foot high bouldering wall. Krista Dearborn made it to the top of the wall....

• Honor Rolls

  

  Foxcroft Academy

  GRADE 12
      HIGH HONORS: Lauren Day-Smith, Lauren Kousaie, Abigail Ruksznis.
      HONORS: Alizabeth Adkins, Malorie Blanchard, Paul Boynton, Christopher Bridges, Marleah Clark, Darren Colbry, Molly Cyr, Taylor Dow, Thomas Fearon, Anthony Gabarro, Jamie Hall, Stephanie Hasenfus, Justin Hayes, Young-Il Le...

• Civil War presentation May 2

      DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Sarah Elizabeth Palmer Tent of the Daughters of Union Veterans will meet on Saturday, May 2 at 10 a.m. in the Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society Observer Building museum.
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• Three Rivers Kiwanis bike rodeo May 2

      MILO — As elementary-age students throughout the Piscataquis area look forward to spring, thoughts turn to outdoor fun. Hundreds of area kids will be hopping on their bikes to take a spin around the neighborhood, visit friends or to independently make their way to important destinations such as the park or store.
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• 101-year-old nurse honored for lifetime achievement

      AUGUSTA – Governor John Baldacci joined the Maine Health Care Association (MHCA) recently to honor the accomplishments of 33 people living in the state’s long term care facilities including Mary Flynn, a resident of Dexter Health Care. The Association presented Certificates of Lifetime Achievement to Flynn and others during a ceremony held in the Hall of Flags at the State House. 
  
  

  

• Group purchases more than 2,400 acres for Seboeis Lake project

      AUGUSTA – Governor John E. Baldacci announced on April 24 the completion of Seboeis Lake conservation project. The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national nonprofit conservation organization has completed the transfer of 2,434 acres at Seboeis Lake from Bayroot LLC to the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. The governor joined legislators, conservation groups and local and federal officials at the State House to celebrate the major step forward in permanently protecting the prime recreational landscape between Milo and Mil...

• Birth

      BOUCHER — A son, Noah L. Boucher, to Jason and Sherry Boucher of Ossippee, N.H. on April 17, 2009. Maternal grandparents are William and Marie Harmon of Orneville Twp. Paternal grandparents are Donald and Carol Brown of Milo, and Clarence Boucher of Guilford. Noah joins siblings Faith and Gracie Boucher....