Stories by Cameron Levasseur

3 months ago

Inside Amazon’s first facility in Maine

The delivery station has been open since Aug. 14, part of Amazon’s $4 billion effort to expand its last mile network and speed up deliveries in rural communities.

3 months ago

Caribou councilor files legal challenge of controversial vote on marijuana rules

A current and an aspiring member of Caribou City Council have jointly filed a complaint in Maine Superior Court challenging an amendment that the City Council made to a cannabis ordinance in July. They say that the amendment violates Maine law and the city charter.  In the complaint, filed in Caribou Superior Court on Aug. […]

3 months ago

WWII vet gets Presque Isle’s 1st ‘Key to the City’ in 85 years

More than 80 years since Presque Isle last awarded an honorary “Key to the City,” city officials revived the tradition Wednesday evening, distinguishing a World War II veteran and longtime city attorney with the honor.  Hugo Olore, who is 102, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day in 1944 as a member of the […]

3 months ago

Award-winning child psychology author to speak at UMPI

Maureen Healy’s career began in the c-suite of major companies in the early 2000s.   A psychologist, she was there to help executives with leadership development, to essentially be the “moral compass in the boardroom.” “I realized pretty early on that these were just big kids acting like children in the playground,” Healy said.  That realization […]