2 days ago

Presque Isle science teacher named Aroostook County Teacher of the Year

Presque Isle High School science teacher Andrew Kirby was recently named the Aroostook County Teacher of the Year by the Maine Department of Education.

4 days ago

Presque Isle truck bypass diverting traffic from downtown

Increased outreach, signage and public notices have helped divert large truck traffic from Presque Isle’s Academy Street to the $16.8 million truck bypass opened in 2019. 

6 days ago

Presque Isle’s first retail weed shop opens

It’s a new day for Presque Isle over-21 weed imbibers, who can now just show a government issued ID, like a driver’s license, to legally purchase up to 2.5 ounces per day of cannabis flowers at the just opened Full Bloom Cannabis on Main Street.

1 week ago

Pandemic ban prevents eviction of tenants from condemned house

Even though people have been living in a condemned Presque Isle home on Elm Street without power or water since last year, city officials said they are limited in what they can do because of the state’s current ban on evictions.

2 weeks ago

Fort Fairfield taxpayer group seeks answers to municipal budget shortfalls

Concerned about unanswered questions on the coming year’s municipal budget, including the whereabouts of unused funds, a group of citizens wants responses from the Fort Fairfield Town Council.

2 weeks ago

Presque Isle’s Chasse named to Maine Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame

Since he was 5, Michael Chasse spent early winter mornings on the sun-dappled Mars Hill Mountain, helping his dad ready the ski patrol hut and get the old cast-iron barrel stove burning red hot at BigRock.

3 weeks ago

Fort Fairfield first public budget hearing on Wednesday

The Fort Fairfield municipal budget has been at the core of discontent between the town and its residents for most of this year, after property taxes rose in 2020 by nearly 28 percent for some. 

3 weeks ago

Ashland man charged after crashing vehicle along Chapman Road

An Ashland man was charged with multiple motor vehicle violations on Saturday night, after crashing the pickup truck he was driving into another vehicle and leaving the scene of the crash, police said.

3 weeks ago

City Council decides to get more answers before offering facade improvement funds this fall

The Caribou City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, April 20, to table a discussion regarding the expansion of the Facade Improvement Grant Program to include a fall award until questions about compliance and program cost can be answered. 

4 weeks ago

Presque Isle saddened by loss of beloved community leader

Milt Smith loved to fly. Like the most agile of birds, he’d soar near the clouds, taking in the long-distance view of the community he loved and served. Sometimes in his single-engine fixed-wing plane and sometimes in the Hopper, the one-man balloon he built, Milt Smith could momentarily step back from his busy world to look and listen before he was back on the ground, running.