PENOBSCOT — Penobscot Community School will hold pre-kindergarten and kindergarten screenings for Penobscot children on Thursday, June 2. The screenings are for children who will be 4 years old for pre-K and 5 years old for kindergarten on or before Oct. 15, 2022. Call the school at 326-9421 for more information and to set up ...

They say that breaking up is hard to do but for the Municipal Review Committee — the organization that now represents 115 municipalities in the disposal of municipal solid waste — it has been disastrous. Years ago, after an unsuccessful bid to renegotiate a long-standing contract with the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. (PERC) plant in ...

By Todd R. Nelson What makes happy people? Having friends, social connections, interactions between people with commonality. As E.M. Forster wrote, “Only connect.” In a recent column on the subject, David Brooks put a finer point on the skills required. “A lot of the important skills are day-to-day communications skills: throwing the...

Bailey Bowden, chairman of the Penobscot Shellfish Committee, had a laundry list of suggested improvements for the council.