Heather McGuire wants people in Aroostook County to know that cooking and eating healthy meals does not have to involve spending more money than their budget allows or giving up food that they can enjoy.
Many people who read The County’s local weekly newspapers will recognize Brent Dyer’s often humorous cartoons of Aroostook County life.
Many employers in Maine have concerns about how the state’s recreational marijuana law affects their business, according to Amanda O’Leary, planning and research associate for the Maine Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Standards.
The last time anyone reported seeing Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes was at a gas station in Houlton on the morning of April 24, 1993.
Each year, 14,000 Mainers experience sexual violence, according to the latest statistics from the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, but only 373 of those cases were reported to law enforcement in 2015.
An ophthalmologist who owns numerous rental properties in Presque Isle recently relocated his property management office to State Street and is looking to move part of his vision care practice into one of the commercial spaces on Main Street.
Officials at the University of Maine at Presque Isle and University of Maine at Fort Kent are hoping that residents of Aroostook County and the rest of Maine will vote for a bond initiative in November that would give millions of dollars to both campuses for major infrastructure upgrades.
A story that began with tragedy for a lost bear cub on the night of April 3 now has a happy ending thanks to a northern Maine game warden and biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
Tom Stevens, former municipal managers for both Limestone and Presque Isle, officially began his duties as Limestone’s new interim town manager on April 17.
As part of Read Across Aroostook Day on April 11, children in kindergarten through eighth grade across The County took a break from class for a little while and enjoyed some quiet reading time of their own.
