9 months ago
Presque Isle district recommends closing 66-year-old elementary school
The Presque Isle-based MSAD 1 intends to close the nearly 70-year-old Zippel Elementary School and consolidate students into the district’s other facilities.
Stories by Cameron Levasseur
9 months ago
Presque Isle is going on offense to spark growth
It’s the municipal equivalent of hanging a neon “open for business” sign, and one of several ways Presque Isle is going on the offensive to redefine itself.
9 months ago
Presque Isle will consider a moratorium on new marijuana businesses
If enacted, the moratorium would mark a substantial shift in policy.
10 months ago
Caribou’s fire station has no sprinklers or fire alarm. A $2.5M upgrade will change that.
“Everybody has the thought, ‘Well, it’s a fire station. You don’t need a sprinkler system.’ But you actually do,” Fire Chief Brian Lajoie said.
10 months ago
Don’t have Valentine’s Day plans? Try eating alligator while ice fishing in northern Maine.
Part kids ice fishing derby, part alligator cookout, the event will take place on Saturday, Feb. 14.
10 months ago
Product of Maine marijuana chain expanding to Aroostook tests positive for pesticides
A chain of Maine medical marijuana dispensaries that is planning to open a location in Presque Isle was subject of the first-ever patient advisory issued by state cannabis regulators last week after products sold in its Waterville store tested positive for pesticides. Strains of five concentrates sold by MarijuanaVille, which operates 12 medical dispensaries mostly […]
10 months ago
A longtime fixture on Presque Isle’s Main Street is for sale
The brothers ran the restaurant — and later a separate retail storefront in the same building — for more than four decades.
10 months ago
Presque Isle group protests ICE tactics in Maine and Minnesota
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement escalated operations in Maine this week, so far mostly in southern parts of the state.
10 months ago
Maine’s northernmost indoor track team has no track. It still thrives
Many of Maine’s more than 50 indoor track teams have to travel to practice or compete. None have to go farther than Presque Isle’s team does.
10 months ago
Three dozen displaced by Caribou apartment fire at senior living center
Three dozen residents of a Caribou senior living center have been temporarily displaced.
