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Massicotte and his dogs race to record ninth Can-Am Crown 250 victory

Martin Massicotte of St-Tite, Quebec, won his ninth Irving Woodlands Can-Am Crown 250 when he crossed the finish line at 3:09 a.m. at Lonesome Pine Trails, breaking the record eight wins he set last year. This is the musher’s fifth straight victory in the longest and most grueling of the three Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races.

Hoots and howls send off Can-Am mushers Saturday in Fort Kent

Downtown was alive once again Saturday morning with the hoots of fans and howls of dogs as 54 mushers and their sled teams streaked down West Main Street to start the Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races.

More than 100 County middle schoolers gather for Nordic ski meet in Fort Kent

The Caribou Middle School ski team captured both the boys’ and girls’ top team spots at Wednesday’s middle school Nordic freestyle races at the Fort Kent Outdoor Center. More than 100 students gathered in Fort Kent for the competition.

County Commissioners table new expenditures, consider shared services

County Commissioners at their recent meeting in Fort Kent tabled County Administrator Ryan D. Peletier’s suggested use of more than $34,000 from the county’s “undesignated fund balance,”

Fire totals truck cab in Monday night fire on woods road

A truck driver escaped injury, but his tractor trailer cab was destroyed following a Monday night fire on the Blackston Road.

Fort Kent, Maranacook, Yarmouth, Orono ski to State Nordic Championships

The Fort Kent Community High School Warriors captured the 2018 Class C Boys State Nordic Skiing Championship Friday, following a 5-kilometer freestyle race that capped off the two-day Class B and C state Nordic ski meet at the Fort Kent Outdoor Center.

Commissioners OK deputy sheriff commissions, new dispatcher

Aroostook County commissioners Wednesday approved the renewal of two deputy sheriffs and the hiring of a new part-time dispatcher at their monthly meeting in Fort Kent.

Valley education collaborative one step closer to new regional high school

The State Board of Education provided one awesome Valentine’s Day wish to the St. John Valley on Wednesday when board members gave top marks to a proposed new regional high school

Madawaska seventh grader spells her way to top spot at County Bee

Madawaska’s Taylor Pelletier was confident when she was tasked Thursday night with spelling “bilious” in the fifth round of the Aroostook County Spelling bee, held at the University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Fox Auditorium.

Tuesday night blaze guts Van Buren home

Fire gutted a two-story home on St. Mary’s Brook Road Tuesday night.

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