Presque Isle

3 months ago

We are called to walk together

To the editor:
Spring returns.
As the season changes, nature awakens — and so do many of our community’s activities.

3 months ago

Thanks from the University of Maine System

To the editor:
On behalf of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees, I want to thank the University of Maine at Presque Isle — and Aroostook County — for hosting our May meeting.

3 months ago

Thomas College spring honors list

WATERVILLE, MAINE — Thomas College announces undergraduate students named to the spring 2025 honors list. Local students named to the list are Ryder Brewer of Blaine and Eva Callioras of Easton. The number of students named to Thomas College’s spring 2025 honors list was 382 students, representing 62 percent of the undergraduate student body.

3 months ago

Federal Job Corps closures include 2 Maine locations

The federally funded Job Corps training centers in Bangor and Limestone, along with nearly 100 other sites across the country, will close at the end of the month. The U.S. Department of Labor will start a “phased pause in operations” of its 99 contract-operated Job Corps sites on June 30, the agency announced Thursday.  The […]

3 months ago

Annual youth fishing derby scheduled

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — In preparation for the annual Presque Isle Elks’ “Hooked on Fishing, Not Drugs” Youth Fishing Derby, the Enfield hatchery of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, stocked Mantle Lake in Presque Isle with 600 8- to 11 inch long trout on May  27. Third- and fourth-grade students from the Easton […]