Fort Kent Town Council approved resolutions to apply for two trail grants worth a total of $44,000 during its Tuesday night meeting. Town officials also approved an excavator purchase and moved forward with a lease agreement with the Wesget Sipu tribe. After a brief discussion, councilors and Town Manager Suzie Paradis agreed to move forward […]
The fire early Wednesday morning shut down the town’s main street and knocked out power to businesses.
Volunteers laid wreaths near veterans’ graves at the Northern Maine Veterans Cemetery in Caribou and Fairmount Cemetery in Presque Isle.
The long-standing tradition went away after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.
“They think the world drops off after the end of I-95 or somewhere in Bangor. Well, we have a major city right across from us. There’s 18,000 people in Edmundston.”
“We’re a small community, but Aroostook County strong. That’s what we do here.”
A Thursday fire damaged part of a Presque Isle building but resulted in no injuries, fire officials said. Crews responded at about 1:50 p.m. to 9 Parsons St., a three-story commercial building owned by Sunny Side Land Holdings, according to city tax maps. The building is being renovated and was unoccupied, the Presque Isle Fire […]
Two Mexican men were indicted in U.S. District Court in Bangor on Wednesday on charges of illegally re-entering the U.S.
The Houlton Police Department arrested an Aroostook County man for allegedly distributing sexually explicit materials of a child
“We haven’t seen Christmas week snowmobiling in five or six years now.”
