When Temple Cinemas in Houlton first closed down back in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, owner Charlie Fortier certainly didn’t think the closure would last until September.
The United States Department of Agriculture has awarded a $50,000 grant to the Houlton Band of Maliseets to build a commercial kitchen at the tribe’s community center.
Cars pulled into Military Street Baptist Church on Saturday morning Aug. 29, with parents looking to receive backpacks full of school supplies for their children as the new school year approaches.
Nate Bodenstab and his colleagues are working together to help humanitarian workers better the lives of children around the world.
Maine Speaker of the House Sara Gideon made a stop at Hidden Spring Winery in Hodgdon Wednesday, Aug. 26, meeting with voters and supporters to discuss her policy positions in her race for U.S. Senate against incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins.
The Houlton Fire Department has received a federal grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide for sanitary products such as masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and other forms of Personal Protective Equipment.
After months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Temple Cinemas in Houlton will finally resume airing films come September. It plans to reopen Sept. 3 with an airing of “Tenet,” an action thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan, who also directed hits such as “Inception” and the Batman “Dark Knight” trilogy.
The selectmen’s meeting for the town of Orient on Aug. 19 featured little on its agenda, but several residents of the town showed up anyway, hoping to use the public comments section of the meeting to raise questions regarding the town’s audit.
More than 100 people showed up at Houlton Community Park on Thursday, Aug. 21, where the baseball field had been converted into an outdoor movie theater, in order to see a screening of “Frozen II.”
Thirty-five years after her passing, family and friends reflected on Houlton native Samantha Smith, who became one of the first American civilians to visit the Soviet Union as part of a diplomatic trip to foster peace between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
