An electric heater likely caused a Thursday fire involving a privately owned ambulance in which someone was living, Caribou fire officials said. The owner had returned from errands to find the vehicle on fire, Caribou Fire and Ambulance Capt. Scott Dow said Friday. “Someone was living in it and had turned it into a camper,” […]
He came to Maine in 1978, when he was stationed at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone.
“Like so many communities, drugs, unemployment and crime plague this area,” he said.
A Tuesday fire left a Van Buren home uninhabitable due to smoke and water damage. The Van Buren Fire Department received a call at around 3:40 p.m. that a two-story Main Street home was ablaze, Chief Brian Caron said. Firefighters arrived to see black smoke rolling from the eaves and door frames, with all the […]
“As a taxpayer myself, I am keenly aware of the burden that increasing property taxes place on our residents,” Lovewell said.
The news comes as cooler temperatures foretell the winter to come, which make housing and heating greater challenges for Maine’s most vulnerable.
A utility outage caused sporadic internet service for some Aroostook customers Tuesday. Houlton-based Pioneer Broadband reported service was affected from Monday night until about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. A “chain of unusual events” transpired when local utility Houlton Water Co., conducted a planned outage, Pioneer Broadband reported on social media around 4 p.m. Tuesday. The problem […]
The installation will be Frenchville’s first to honor all its veterans from World War I to the present.
HOULTON, Maine — The Aroostook County grand jury handed up 31 indictments for August, including a Woodland man who allegedly pointed a gun at law enforcement. Robert Grosser, 46, was arrested in June at a Colby Siding Road residence after calling police to report his ex-girlfriend was “crazy” and people were being shot. When an […]
The argument involved a 30-year-old secondhand truck and a fire department substation the town is building on the opposite side of the lake.
