Thanks to a military training program that launched in May, two national aerospace companies could be coming to northern Maine. Operation Northern Phoenix used the former Loring Air Force Base’s runways for the first run of its five-year aviation training effort. Word of that event spread in aviation circles, and the businesses reached out to […]
The Aroostook Regional Transportation System launched a pilot Workforce Connector program under a DOT grant. Now, it wants to secure funding to keep the buses rolling.
The upgraded lab will help ensure Maine continues to grow its potato industry, UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy said.
A former Caribou resident will serve eight years in prison for allegedly possessing child sexual abuse images.
“This is more than just a structure of wood and nails. It’s a symbol of collaboration, learning and community spirit.”
The cook-off is newly sanctioned by the Northeast Barbecue Society, and was the first event — and the only one in Maine — of the society’s 11 contests this year.
Full Bloom Cannabis, which launched in 2017 in Grand Isle, recently introduced a new chief executive officer and expanded its Presque Isle site.
Maine’s homeless shelters will split nearly $5 million in one-time emergency funding under a law signed by Gov. Janet Mills last week. LD 698, An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine, will provide $4.47 million for the state’s 40 shelters. Since the remainder of COVID-19 relief funding has evaporated, emergency housing facilities have […]
Presque Isle’s restored one-room schoolhouse hosted a fitting Fourth of July celebration: a reading of the Declaration of Independence, crafted 249 years ago, which gave birth to the United States of America. About 20 people filled the James School for the reading, which also included reflections from local historian Larry Park and Kim Smith of […]
Jane Towle, festival organizer, loves the thrill of people packing into the town and the boost they bring to the entire region.
