Presque Isle’s restored one-room schoolhouse hosted a fitting Fourth of July celebration: a reading of the Declaration of Independence, crafted 249 years ago, which gave birth to the United States of America. About 20 people filled the James School for the reading, which also included reflections from local historian Larry Park and Kim Smith of […]
Jane Towle, festival organizer, loves the thrill of people packing into the town and the boost they bring to the entire region.
“Late-blight spore counts dropped sharply over the past week and there are still no confirmed cases in Maine,” Extension scientists said.
The Aroostook County grand jury handed up 47 indictments for June, including of a man wanted by Caribou police on multiple new charges.
After residents rejected the school budget in a June referendum vote, the district cut $60,000.
The disease hasn’t yet been reported in Maine, but spores were detected across Aroostook County.
Presque Isle was founded in 1828, but what happened before it was settled is a bit of a mystery.
Caribou police are asking for the public’s help to locate a man wanted on multiple charges.
Cary Medical Center’s Pink Aroostook, which supports breast cancer patients, plans its inaugural Pink Plate Food Festival this Sunday.
The multiyear process is still in early days, but soon commissioners will have to decide whether to hire designers to project what a new jail would look like.
