WASHBURN, Maine — Isabelle Allen of Wade, a senior at Washburn District High School, has been selected to receive the 2025 Principal’s Award, Principal Lawrence Worcester announced. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship. “Throughout her years at Washburn District High […]
In celebration of Maine School of Science and Mathematics’ 30th anniversary, Thomas College delivered a themed weekend on Design Thinking for about 100 MSSM students on March 1 at MSSM. MSSM has historically had special programming on special weekends, called themed weekends, to help expose their students to advanced and interesting topics. For example, the […]
PATTEN, Maine — Emma Schmidt, a senior at Katahdin High School, has been selected to receive the 2025 Principal’s Award, Principal Lori Soucy announced. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement, leadership and citizenship. Throughout her years at Katahdin High School, Schmidt has […]
CARIBOU, Maine — A volunteer driver program has passed a major milestone in providing rides to older adults in the greater Caribou area. The County Area Ride Service is a project of The Center for the Advancement of Rural Living. By the end of January the program had provided more than 12,000 miles in transportation services […]
2025 has started out great. In the months of January and February, we saw many dogs and cats find loving, warm homes to call their own.
PAWS of Fort Kent presents the adorable and quirky Cookie, a 2-year-old tuxedo cat. She is friendly and confident, and will jump into your lap, demand petting and give you a headbutt.
The Fort Kent Knights of Columbus have announced the winner of their ongoing lotto fundraiser for the previous week.
HOULTON, Maine – The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and the Wabanaki Alliance now have an even stronger bond following the election of Osihkiyol “Zeke” Crofton-Macdonald as its new president. Crofton-Macdonald joined HBMI in 2022 as its first Tribal Ambassador and has worked diligently to educate and foster relationships with many organizations across the state. […]
LIMESTONE, Maine — The second annual Howard Family Speakers Series at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics will be held April 4 at 7 p.m. in the Boothby Auditorium at the Limestone Community School. This year, MSSM will welcome Aaron Putnam, MSSM Class of 2000 and Presque Isle native for a talk entitled “Charting […]
ISLAND FALLS, Maine — Margaret Bishop Dunphy celebrated her 90th birthday with a small gathering at her home in Island Falls. Attending were her daughter Carrielee Dunphy from Big Lake Alaska, granddaughter Tonia Dunphy Ward with husband James Ward and daughters Lillie Fortier and Abigail Fortier from Oakland. Also present were daughter Sherry Willigar, son […]
