Feds delay building new Houlton Border Patrol station

by Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli
3 years ago
A U.S. Border Patrol K9 team is seen in Houlton. Credit: Courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
HOULTON, Maine — Houlton’s proposed new Border Patrol station has been put on hold after the proposed funds were allocated to a facility in Texas. In an eleventh-hour decision prompted by increased building costs, the Department of Homeland Security halted construction of a new Houlton facility, which was to start this spring, to redirect funding to a new station in Texas instead.Read more.