Cody Johnson of Fort Kent and Russell Currier of Stockholm are among several local athletes who have trained at one time or another at Fort Kent’s winter sports facility and subsequently found spots on U.S. ski and biathlon teams.
Students, teachers and administrators are looking ahead to another school year starting in the next month or two.
John Price, 62, only took up running in his 20s, partly as a way to lose weight when he was in the U.S. Navy. He ran a few miles every day and eventually lost 20 pounds.
School board members voted Thursday evening to hire two teachers for positions at Van Buren District Secondary School, according to board chair John Pelletier.
Anglers and ploye lovers are once again expected to flock to Fort Kent and the St. John Valley this summer when the International Muskie Derby and Ploye Festival arrive next month.
More than 50 people gathered to watch the Grand Entry of the annual Wesget Sipu PowWow on Saturday, July 22.
The Fort Kent girls’ soccer team has been busy this summer, with late afternoon drills and scrimmages.
Aroostook County Deputy Sheriffs on Wednesday, July 26, arrested and charged Sylvia Hamilton, 51, of Cross Lake with burglary and two counts of aggravated criminal mischief, according to a statement from Sheriff Darrell Crandall.
Two men escaped injury Thursday morning following separate collisions with the same moose on the Soucy Hill section of Maine Route 11 in northern Aroostook County.
An East Winthrop man visiting his camp in the North Maine Woods was killed Monday when his pickup truck apparently rolled over him, according to a statement from the Maine State Police.
