Aroostook residents choose community involvement amid ICE surge
Many northern Mainers have gone beyond attending protests to become more supportive of and involved in their communities.
Many northern Mainers have gone beyond attending protests to become more supportive of and involved in their communities.
“The weather looks a lot more positive than it did a couple years ago, and we are confident that the race is going to proceed like it’s supposed to.”
Maine homicides have been cut in half over the past three years, but the number of domestic abuse killings has steadily increased.
“I do believe that future funding for these projects is going to come at a higher local cost than it has in the past,” Superintendent Ben Sirois said.
In its nearly 30-year run, generations of families have returned to the traditional end-of-winter blow-out.
Part kids ice fishing derby, part alligator cookout, the event will take place on Saturday, Feb. 14.
The brothers ran the restaurant — and later a separate retail storefront in the same building — for more than four decades.
“There are some hardcores out there,” he said, “and they’re the ones that are going to bring the fish in.”
Madawaska will raise a 20-foot sculpture of an Acadian star later this year, courtesy of welding students at the St. John Valley Technology Center.
“I heard them perform that year and I thought, ‘Oh, they’re a wonderful group.’”