Houlton’s Community Market held its first outing of the year in Houlton’s Market Square on May 22. Two days later, restrictions on social distancing and mask-wearing for vaccinated people were lifted, enabling the market to return to something resembling its pre-pandemic self.
After months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lack of films being distributed for theaters, Houlton’s Temple Cinema looks to finally be returning to a sense of normalcy.
The morning of May 31 was wet and rainy, but that didn’t stop more than two dozen local residents from gathering at Houlton’s Monument Park to honor America’s soldiers who fell in the line of duty.
Nickerson Lake, located 10 minutes outside of Houlton in Aroostook County, is known for its narrow, crescent shape and the pristine clearness of its water.
For the first time since November, residents of the small town of Orient gathered at the town office to hold a regular selectmen’s meeting, picking up on some of the controversy that had occurred the previous fall and summer.
A brief but powerful storm that hit Houlton on Wednesday, May 26, left the town without power and downed several trees.
In light of the latest lifting of mask requirements and capacity limits in the Maine, the Houlton Town Council announced that the May 24 meeting was the last one to be held over Zoom only.
In another sign of normalcy beginning to slowly return, Houlton area grocery stores began welcoming vaccinated shoppers who no longer need to wear a mask on Monday, May 24.
Hodgdon welcomed visiting Fort Fairfield during a matchup between the two teams on May 12, and then proceeded to defeat the Tigers by a score of 14-3.
The prospect of a new ambulance service in southern Aroostook strengthened on Wednesday, May 12, as the towns of Ludlow and Linneus voted in special town meetings to officially join the new service.
