Officials with the nonprofit Aroostook Aspirations Initiative celebrated the success of all participating students as well as local business and community leaders on Thursday night while also taking time to reflect on how they would like to strengthen their strong Aroostook County friendships in years to come.
Do-it-yourself projects have become increasingly popular with homeowners who enjoy rolling up their sleeves and getting to work refurbishing or even creating additions to their homes.
Those who have driven by the University of Maine at Presque Isle during the past month might have noticed numerous poles standing on the lawn in front of South Hall, all with multi-colored strings of yarn converging in the middle and spreading across the entire circle.
Former Aroostook County residents now living in North Carolina, where Tropical Storm Florence has unleashed a torrent of wind and rain, are getting ready to ride what forecasters expect to be an unfolding disaster of widespread flooding.
No matter where Gail Roy of Presque Isle has lived or travelled to, one thing has remained constant. She has always been able to find a public or academic library to visit, one with its doors wide open for people from both near and far.
When Griffin Goins, Northern Maine Community College’s new associate director of development and college relations, and his wife, Devina, were looking for a small, rural New England town to settle into
Following the invention of the telephone in 1876, the technology brought more connectedness to Aroostook County.
As part of their second and final year of the Summer Gap Feeding Program, United Way of Aroostook partnered with numerous community volunteers and sponsors to fulfill a crucial need for families in the SAD 1 school district.
When people ask Edward Peter-Paul to name a significant fact about the history of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, the first thing that comes to his mind is the Treaty of Watertown.
The Presque Isle Fire Department recently won a $209,262 federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant to replace much of the department’s current supply of air packs.
