A Fort Fairfield boy who was in critical condition after a fire last week has left a Boston hospital and returned to Aroostook County, Fort Fairfield Police Chief Shawn Newell said.
A familiar face will be at the helm of the Washburn girls basketball team this season, guiding his young players through what many expect to be a very different season.
A Facebook group distributed nearly 200 Christmas stockings full of gifts to children across Aroostook County over the weekend.
A donation drive has raised more than $15,000 to help a Fort Fairfield family who lost their home in a fire on Wednesday, an outpouring of support spearheaded by Aroostook County residents.
A fifth resident has died in a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected 27 people at the Presque Isle Rehab and Nursing Center as the facility prepares to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Employees at Northern Light A.R. Gould on Wednesday were the first in Aroostook County to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a watershed moment for a region that has recently seen a large uptick in coronavirus cases.
Recent outbreaks of COVID-19 that prompted SAD 1 to close its schools on Dec. 4 appear to have come from transmission outside of the schools, the district’s board of directors learned in a meeting on Wednesday.
Aroostook County saw 33 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, by far the most it had seen in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic.
A teenage boy was airlifted to Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston on Wednesday after suffering severe injuries in a house fire in Fort Fairfield.
Though its annual Festival of Trees fundraiser fell victim to the pandemic, the nonprofit St. Apollonia Dental Clinic in Presque Isle nevertheless raised tens of thousands of dollars in a 2020 donation drive.
