Houlton

2 years ago

Development group welcomes new director

HOULTON, Maine — The Southern Aroostook Development Corporation hosted a meet-and-greet event at the Shiretown’s UpOver to welcome its new executive director, Johanna Johnston, on Thursday, May 4. 

2 years ago

United Ag & Turf, NE expands locations to Aroostook County

United Ag & Turf, NE, which operates John Deere dealerships throughout New England and eastern New York, has added John Deere agriculture and turf products to their current United Construction & Forestry locations in Houlton and New Canada.

2 years ago

This issue needs our opposition

To the editor: “May 1st saw a historic day of turnout in the Maine Legislature for the public hearing of LD1619, “An Act to Improve Maine’s Reproductive Privacy Laws.”  

2 years ago

We aren’t defined by bumps in the road

The morning was that milky gray, with random droplets of rain falling clumsily to the earth like heavy particles of mislaid and forgotten glitter. I put my wipers on intermittently, automatically lowering or raising my head in conjunction with the landing of the raindrop.

2 years ago

Genealogy packrats

“A place for everything and everything in its place” is an adage you may have heard. It’s good advice for everyone, including genealogists.  

2 years ago

Houlton falls to Caribou in tennis

The Houlton/Greater Houlton Christian Academy boys and girls tennis teams fell to Caribou on May 3 in a cold, windy match in Houlton.

2 years ago

Houlton area From our Files – May 10, 2023

115 Years Ago – May 7, 1908 Moving from Washburn — H. B. Field of Washburn, was in Caribou Wednesday. Mr. Fields has purchased a place in Norridgewock and will move his family to that place Wednesday of next week. He is one of Washburn’s most substantial and reliable business men, and will be greatly […]