5 hours ago

Fort Fairfield residents, businesses embrace holiday spirit with townwide decorations

In hopes of spreading more holiday cheer among residents and businesses this season, the Fort Fairfield Quality of Place Council held its first-ever Celebration of Lights that included a much anticipated home decorating competition and more festive decorations throughout the downtown area.

16 hours ago

What to know before you eat snow

When you’re a child, snow is magical. It’s hard to resist catching the fluffy, crystalline flakes on your tongue or secretly shoveling handfuls of snow into your mouth, the taste all at once powdery and crisply refreshing.

20 hours ago

Weekly digital jigsaw – The Book Nook – Star-Herald

The Book Nook Used Books Space is located at the Aroostook Centre Mall.

21 hours ago

St. Lucia celebration sheds light on darkest day of year

The Swedish tradition of celebrating the year’s darkest day was honored at Woodland Consolidated School on Dec. 13.

2 days ago

8 recipes to keep you cozy throughout winter

It’s that time of the year. Whether it’s a full-on blizzard or simply gloomy and gray, there are days where going outside is not going to happen.

2 days ago

Caribou honors fallen veterans with wreaths on gravesites

For decades, veterans groups in Caribou and elsewhere have been holding ceremonies honoring those who sacrificed their lives for their country by placing wreaths on their gravesites in December.

2 days ago

Elks offer annual Christmas dinner

Tai Ireland, Exalted Ruler of Presque Isle Elks Lodge 1954, invites anyone who would otherwise be celebrating Christmas Day alone to join the Elks for their annual Elks Family Christmas Dinner Tuesday, Dec. 25.

3 days ago

Houlton Recreation Department announces school vacation activities

The Houlton Recreation Department is offering the following programs and activities during the school vacation break Dec. 21-Jan. 2.

3 days ago

Presque Isle library builds book tree in celebration of reading and the holiday season

Like many local businesses, the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library is celebrating the holiday season with a bright, colorful Christmas tree standing in their front entrance, though not a typical tree with green branches and glass ornaments.

5 days ago

Local quilting group donates handmade quilts to dialysis patients in Presque Isle

Patients at the County Dialysis Center in Presque Isle soon will receive special handmade Christmas gifts that will keep them warm throughout the long, cold winter months in Aroostook County.

6 days ago

PI craft and vendor fair to benefit recovery program

The Stone Ridge Event Center in Presque Isle will host its inaugural Christmas Craft and Vendor Fair on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15 and 16.

6 days ago

Cooking with Susie Q (week of December 12, 2018)

I got a message from Joe asking for a recipe for molasses cookies.

6 days ago

Why you may want to ditch your fancy snowshoes for wooden ones

Wooden snowshoes are iconic antiques of the Northeast, hung over fireplaces as decorative displays of traditional craftsmanship and a nod to the region’s long, snowy winters.

7 days ago

Birch Point Bowling League (week of December 12, 2018)

The standings for the Birch Point Bowling men’s league as of Monday, Dec. 10 were: 1 Strike Force, 35-13; 2, Intimidators, 32-16; 3, Rough Riders, 31-17; 4, Skinners Sandbaggers, 30-18; and 5, Gutterballs, 16-32.

1 week ago

Local winery hosts Christmas Fair

Hidden Springs Winery hosted a Holiday Fair Saturday, Dec. 8, to support the “Shop Local” theme, complete with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus and Tim “the Tune Man” Humphrey.

1 week ago

Weekly digital jigsaw – Wreath throw – Aroostook Republican & News

Caribou American Legion Post 15 Commander Wayne Little, foreground, and VFW Lister-Knowlton Post 9389 Commander Roger Felix toss a ceremonial wreath off the Fort Street Bridge

1 week ago

Weekly digital jigsaw – Hand-knit mittens – Star-Herald

Helen Lint, from Mars Hill, donated over 40 pairs of hand-knit mittens

1 week ago

Planetarium to present ‘Season of Light’ program

On Saturday, Dec. 15, at both 2 and 3 p.m., the Francis Malcolm Science Center will host Lock Ness Productions’ “Season of Light” in the new, enhanced, full-dome planetarium theater.