1 year ago
These bugs are tormenting Maine potato growers
Potato pests can eat plants, spread viruses and affect the yield and quality of Maine’s No. 1 food crop.
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1 year ago
Smyrna Amish business has grown from farm stand to retail store
The market offers fresh-picked produce, pickles they make on premises, grass fed beef, pasture chicken, pasture pork, raw milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, kefir, jams and jellies, baked goods, baskets, leather products, fresh picked and pick your own flowers and more.
1 year ago
Linneus man pleads guilty to role in drug ring
James Valiante, 42, described by the U.S. Department of Justice as a drug dealer based in Aroostook County, allegedly regularly got drugs from a source in Bangor as part of a trafficking operation in Penobscot and Aroostook counties and elsewhere.
1 year ago
A Fort Fairfield man is missing
Police issued a Silver Alert Thursday night for Edward Bolstridge, 68, of Fort Fairfield.
1 year ago
Aroostook man convicted of murder seeks chance to appeal, blames attorneys
James Paul Peaslee, 44, testified for nearly two hours in Aroostook County Superior Court, detailing how his former attorneys, Stephen Smith of Bangor and John Tebbetts of Presque Isle, did not represent his best interests.
1 year ago
Shuttered day care slated to reopen in Fort Fairfield
The town council ratified a lease agreement for the Little Sunshine Learning Center under the ownership of a former staff member.
1 year ago
Van Buren residents weigh in on upcoming DOT project
Much of the feedback centered on how some aspects of the project, such as bump-outs and the addition of trees along some roads, could affect winter road maintenance
1 year ago
Parents of Erik Foote want review of his autopsy
Brenda and Allan Foote want answers to the questions they still have about their son’s disappearance and death.
1 year ago
Presque Isle nursing home closes Thursday after final resident leaves
The Cyr family, who also own the Caribou Nursing and Rehab Center, announced in March the Presque Isle location would close, affecting 49 residents and 120 staff.
1 year ago
The search isn’t over for a County pilot missing since 1972
The search for Lewis “Billy” Hogan’s plane is front and center again, because at 1 p.m. Saturday the Maine Army National Guard is giving a U.S. flag to his brother Jerome in honor of Billy, who was a member of the Houlton Army Guard.
