When Presque Isle resident Kari Wells-Puckett learned that a one-year anniversary event celebrating last year’s Women’s March would be held in Augusta, part of a nationwide series of marches Jan. 20 and 21, she knew the opportunity was too good for her and her daughter Sabine Wells-Puckett, 9, to pass up.
The Central Aroostook Chamber of Commerce was recently involved in a phone scam in which an unknown individual made at least one call to an Aroostook County business owner while claiming to be from the chamber.
On Missile Street in Presque Isle, one local wood hardwood veneer and plywood company has found success in generating heat from veneer byproduct since the company’s inception in the early 1960s.
Thanks to a $590,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture, the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in Presque Isle expect to have a new public works facility completed in fall 2018.
The night of Saturday, Jan. 27, is likely one that Larry Harrison, scoutmaster for Washburn’s Boy Scout Troop 177, is unlikely to forget.
With over 440 acres of land available to business and industrial facilities, the Skyway Industrial Park remains an area that the Presque Isle Industrial Council seeks to fill with employers and the skilled workforce that contributes to the region’s economic well-being.
For much of the first half of 2018, the Presque Isle Planning Board will work with Code Enforcement Officer George Howe to propose, draft and implement changes to the city’s Land Use Code
On the evening of Thursday, Jan. 25, the large dining room of the Presque Isle Inn and Convention Center was filled with more than 100 Central Aroostook Chamber of Commerce members
Mikaela Sue Faye, a hairdresser at Great Beginnings Hair Boutique in Presque Isle, was nationally recognized on Artego Hair Color’s “Best Works of the Week” video on the Italian company’s Facebook page for the week of Jan. 19.
More than 30 children crowded into the front row and many other spectators filled the Akeley Gallery at the public library Saturday to learn more about Maine owls and get a glimpse of two live owls from the Chewonki Traveling Natural History Program.
