The University of Maine at Presque Isle Lady Owls are 4-5 over their last nine games but are playing better with the addition of two key seniors, Brigitte Pratt and Krista Coffin. The newcomers add toughness, intelligence and size to a young and inexperienced squad that had to replace more than 80 percent of last season’s scoring and rebounding.
The final Heal Point basketball standings will become official this weekend, with some local teams finding out who their opponent will be in the preliminary playoff round (next Tuesday and Wednesday), others drawing a bye directly into the Eastern Maine Tournament at the Cross Center in Bangor, which begins Feb. 13, and a handful seeing their seasons come to an end.
Contributed photo by Robyn Smith Corey is a year-and-a-half-old feline male Maine Coon mix who came to the Halfway Home Pet Rescue with very severe sores all over his body due to a lack of parasite prevention. Corey has received a new haircut to allow his hair to grow out evenly, and HHPR volunteers agree […]
A woman charged with a civil violation stemming from the October death of a retired local educator who was struck by her car in the crosswalk at a Presque Isle grocery store denied any wrongdoing during a court hearing on Jan. 21
Kris Doody CARIBOU — Kris Doody, RN, MSB, FACHE, and chief executive officer at Cary Medical Center in Caribou has been named one of 50 Rural Hospital CEOs to know by “Becker’s Hospital Review,” a monthly national publication offering business and legal news and analysis relating to hospitals and health systems.
AUGUSTA — Senator Peter Edgecomb (R-Aroostook) has been appointed by Senate President Michael Thibodeau (R-Waldo) to serve as a member of the Maine Board of Agriculture.
Staff photo/Scott Mitchell Johnson Austin LaPlante, 14, of Caribou, was chosen by judge Tamia Glidden to be part of “Team Tamia” heading into Sunday afternoon’s Northern Star finale in Caribou. At the central Aroostook show held Saturday night in Presque Isle, LaPlante engaged the audience early on during his performance of “Uptown Funk” by Bruno […]
CARIBOU, Maine — Teachers and principals of RSU 39 will be evaluated through a new set of criteria come the fall, and early participants with the new guidelines are pleased with the results.
WOODLAND, Maine — Students at the Woodland Consolidated School celebrated woodchuck day Monday by hurling miniature logs outside in frigid temps in honor of their mascot the woodchuck.
CARIBOU, Maine — Fire swept through a mobile home at 100 Dow Siding Road on Monday morning, claiming the life of a young Caribou man.
Jordan McEwen was found by firefighters in a bedroom of the mobile home shortly after 10 a.m., having succumbed to smoke inhalation.
