Innovation filled the hallways of the campus center at the University of Maine at Presque Isle Wednesday as a group of young engineers demonstrated their original snow plow designs. Instead of steel, these vehicles were made of cardboard boxes, plastic cups and paper plates. They were the creations of a group of third and fourth […]
Less than a month ago, the Taste of Maine Potato Chip Co.’s $65 million flagship plant on the former Loring Air Force Base looked like little more than a fenced-in patch of gravel. Today, the frame of the 96,000-square-foot facility towers over the surrounding area as the plant begins to take shape. “This is not […]
The world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon, is opening a warehouse in Caribou to speed up delivery times in northern Maine, a company spokesperson confirmed to the Bangor Daily News Wednesday. “We’re close to completing construction work on a small delivery station that will support faster delivery and better service to customers in Caribou and across […]
For 30 years until last October, Sonja Eyler worked as a librarian, a profession she chose because it put her on “the front lines of literature.” A career change put her a quarter mile down the street on the front lines of municipal government. The city of Presque Isle hired Eyler to be its assistant […]
Two weeks after voters resoundingly rejected its 2025-26 budget, the Caribou-based RSU 39 School Board went back to the drawing board Monday, recommending a budget that reduces impact on taxpayers by roughly $60,000. That budget will now go to a budget meeting for a public vote on July 1, followed by a second referendum on […]
As temperatures soar into the 80s and 90s in Aroostook County and throughout the state of Maine Tuesday, many local towns are opening cooling centers to help residents beat the heat. These spaces offer air conditioning and a place for people to rest and hydrate to escape dangerous weather as high humidity combines with heat. […]
With the help of a local Amish saddler, he came up with his initial body shield backpack in 2019.
But there’s only one of those in Maine, and Trader Joe’s Outpost would likely fit in its freezer aisle.
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.
He tried again and again to get into the private alternative school. But a lack of funding made it nearly impossible for him to attend.
