Aroostook County is about as far away from Mexico as one can be in the continental United States. But that didn’t stop many in Presque Isle from celebrating Cinco de Mayo on Tuesday.
The Mars Hill-based Pineland Farms Potato Company will continue its “Drive Thru Box of Food Giveaway” this week by giving out 4,500 more boxes of food in the Presque Isle and St. John Valley areas May 6-8.
The cause of an early morning fire Saturday at The White Dog Market is under investigation Monday. Presque Isle Fire Department does not consider it suspicious. The store was a total loss.
A little more than a month after Gov. Janet Mills closed hairdressers and barbers in Maine to contain COVID-19, salons across Presque Isle said people were rushing to get back to the stylist chair on Friday.
It will be another week before the semi-municipal Central Aroostook Ambulance Service will begin service because of supply issues.
The popular Maine Potato Blossom Festival is the latest event to fall victim to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Thursday, the Maine Department of Transportation said it would finish repaving a 10-mile stretch of Route 1 between Presque Isle and Caribou by August.
On Wednesday, millions of Americans celebrated Earth Day, including Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Youth Services Librarian Melissa St. Pierre, who gave a live rendition of Dr. Seuss’s 1971 book “The Lorax.”
For the first time, medical marijuana users in the Star City won’t need to leave town to get their cannabis products in a store.
The Pineland Farms Potato Company gave out thousands of pounds of food to a huge crowd of residents on Friday at the Aroostook Centre Mall in Presque Isle.
