3 months ago
Inside the new $75M potato chip factory in Limestone
The chips, which come in five flavors, hit retail shelves for the first time last week.
Stories by Cameron Levasseur
3 months ago
Main Street bridge in Caribou closed until November
Signs along Main Street direct drivers to detour onto nearby Route 1, creating a roughly six mile detour from one side of Prestile Brook to the other.
3 months ago
JetBlue awarded two-year contract to continue serving Presque Isle’s airport
Under the deal, JetBlue will maintain its current once-daily roundtrip flights to Boston on 140-seat AirBus A220s.
3 months ago
After some ‘lean and mean’ years, the Northern Maine Fair is bringing the midway back
“It’s an exciting year for people to come back to the fair that have been discouraged with it over the years.”
3 months ago
Maine cemetery caretakers are few. An Aroostook city rallied the community to find a solution.
Evergreen needed a facelift. Its new board made it happen.
3 months ago
Maine doctor who was barred reentry into U.S. now identified in court filing
A Maine doctor who has been stuck in Canada for more than two months after being denied reentry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection was identified Friday in a court filing by her attorneys. Dr. Behnoosh Dashti, a physician at Northern Light A.R. Gould Hospital in Presque Isle, is suing Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne […]
4 months ago
Aroostook’s biggest celebration of the potato industry starts this week
Thousands of people will soon descend on Fort Fairfield to bask in northern Maine’s chief agricultural export: the potato.
4 months ago
Where to watch fireworks and celebrate America’s 250th in northern Maine
There are plenty of ways to revel in America’s independence around The County this week.
4 months ago
Caribou approves $15M budget projected to raise taxes by 6%
The Caribou City Council on Monday night voted to approve a $15 million municipal budget — up $2.3 million from what it spent a year previous — that is set to raise local property taxes by upwards of 6%. The council approved the $13.5 million expense budget by a 5-0 vote, with two members, Deputy […]
4 months ago
A rural Maine town’s only grocery store is headed to foreclosure auction
It is the only grocery store in close proximity to a swath of small towns west of Scopan Lake in central Aroostook.
