On Aug. 5, 1974, the Northern Maine Regional Planning Commission (NMRPC) was selected as the lead agency for preparing an EPA-funded Clean Water Act (Section 208) “Aroostook-Prestile Areawide Water Quality Management Plan.” The study area included the towns of Caribou, Washburn, Fort Fairfield, Presque Isle, Westfield, Easton, Mapleton, Mars Hill and Blaine.
The most important step in genealogy is the step I find the most difficult — talking to people.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, last year the United States produced more than 3.2 million gallons of maple syrup, an increase of 70 percent from the previous year, which in turn generated millions of dollars in revenues for producers across the country including many in Maine.
Maine has a robust and growing craft brewing industry, which employs more than 1,200 people. Our state is home to nearly 50 breweries producing quality beer from Bangor to Bar Harbor, Portland to Skowhegan, Biddeford to Whitefield and many communities in between.
Hunters interested in turkey won’t have to travel downstate this year, following the announcement last week by state wildlife officials that for the first time this spring turkey hunting will be allowed in various locations in Aroostook County.
For several years now, the city of Presque Isle’s Downtown Revitalization Committee has been planning and organizing for the opening of an exciting new “Public Market” in the Riverside Drive area of our central business district. Beginning on Thursday, May 15, that goal will finally come to fruition.
Beginning with his first day in office, Gov. LePage has branded himself as a shrewd businessman, a so-called “turnaround specialist” willing to make the tough choices in order to move the state’s economy forward.
In its 1968-69 annual report, Maine’s Environmental Improvement Commission (EIC) noted wastewater applications from McKay Rock Products (now Lane Construction) in Presque Isle to discharge stone dust to the Aroostook River in the amount of 450 gallons per minute (gpm), and from Taterstate Frozen Foods in Washburn to unload 750 gpm of potato processing waste into Salmon Brook.
Revitalizing Houlton’s downtown has been an ongoing goal of municipal leaders for several years and will likely continue to be a topic of discussion for many more years to come.
Our lives are dependent on healthy soil. While most people think of soil as just dirt, its functions are crucial to our very existence.
And while it may seem trivial at first glance, healthy soil gives us clean air and water, bountiful crops and forests, productive grazing lands, diverse wildlife and beautiful landscapes.
