PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Seventeen individuals at Northern Light AR Gould Hospital were welcomed into a “Veterans-In-Partnership” or VIP group at the hospital. While all employees are considered very important at the organization, this impressive group is the hospital’s most tenured, all having achieved the status of 20 years or more of service. “Your care, […]
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Members of Aroostook Iron CrossFit celebrated one year in business on Veterans Day with a special workout honoring those who served. “The CrossFit organization has a tradition of ‘hero’ workouts. These are tributes to individual fallen military personnel or to our armed forces in general,” said Paige Huston, head coach at […]
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine – The County Federal Credit Union recently held the annual Fall Festival to End Hunger at Big Rock Mountain in Mars Hill and raised just shy of $50,000 for local food pantries. “The community has enthusiastically embraced our Fall Festival to End Hunger each year since its inception,” said Dan Bagley, EVP. […]
The Southern Aroostook region is leveling up its approach to growth and investment.On Oct. 23 Johanna Johnston, executive director of the Southern Aroostook Development Corporation, graduated from the Oklahoma University Economic Development Institute — the nation’s leading professional development program for economic development practitioners. Johnston was also awarded the Derieth Sutton Legacy Scholarship for Economic […]
FORT KENT, Maine – Northern Maine Medical Center is proud to announce the launch of COMPASS, a cutting-edge telemedicine platform designed to bring specialized medical expertise directly to the bedside of patients in our community. We are thrilled to bring critical care and pulmonology to Fort Kent now, with the addition of neurology and cardiology […]
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — On Oct. 24, World Polio Day, the Presque Isle Rotary Club once again teamed up with Presque Isle, Easton and Ashland area schools and several local businesses to raise awareness and support for the global effort to eradicate polio through its annual Purple Pinkie Project. The Purple Pinkie Project gives students […]
Houlton Regional Hospital officials have received notice that registered nurses plan a two-day strike beginning Nov. 18, hospital representatives said Tuesday in a press release. The hospital has a contingency plan to cover services during the strike that would result in no disruption of services, officials said. The nurses are planning the strike to protest […]
International potato product producer McCain Foods has agreed to purchase Penobscot McCrum in Washburn.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Northern Light AR Gould Hospital recently completed the replacement of the hospital’s Linear Accelerator, which provides critical, lifesaving radiation therapy to cancer patients across Aroostook County. The hospital’s Varian IX C Series LINAC has been replaced with a new Siemens TrueBeam machine. “Our previous C model machine was a first-generation LINAC […]
Houlton Regional Hospital registered nurses have called a two-day strike that will begin Nov. 18.
