Chamber gala honors famed Houlton dairy farm for lifetime achievement
Alice and Leonard Lincoln, who own Houlton Farms Dairy with their children, received the Chamber’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Alice and Leonard Lincoln, who own Houlton Farms Dairy with their children, received the Chamber’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
More than 200 packed the Northern Maine Community College gym for the event.
With tens of thousands of visitors expected to gather in parts of Maine to view the eclipse, planners in Houlton and beyond are taking precautions with the expectation the weather will be less than stellar.
On March 1, Aroostook Waste Solutions, co-owned by Caribou, Limestone, Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle, began a pilot program aimed at decreasing the financial burden of blight.
Aroostook saw a 17.5-percent jump in tourism between Dec. 2022 and Nov. 2023, with 332,400 total people having visited during that time.
The new $65 million port of entry leads to a new bridge that connects Madawaska and the Canadian city of Edmundston, New Brunswick.
The Houlton Water Co. will get $1,749,000 to replace a crucial electrical transmission line and Houlton’s Region Two School of Applied Technology is in the budget for $660,000 to upgrade aging infrastructure.
All general public rides will be free for Aroostook County residents for one day on Monday, March 18 to remember the contributions the late Mavis Towle and James “Jim” Tweedie made to the community.
University Credit Union is pleased to announce that the application period for the annual UCU Scholarship is now open online at https://www.ucumaine.com/scholarship/.
The Central Aroostook Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of The Maple Pig Bar & Grill at 710 Main St., Presque Isle.