Most of northern Maine, including a large portion of Aroostook and part of Washington counties, is an energy island that is dislocated from the rest of the northeastern power grid, ISO New England.
A city council committee to investigate the finances of the ambulance department was dissolved after less than a month in response to intense pushback from a group of residents questioning the committee’s intentions.
Caribou City Council is delaying until the 11th hour a final vote to approve the 2021 tax rate, the group decided at a June 14 meeting. They agreed to meet on June 28 for a single-issue special meeting.
Just a day after Piscatiquis became the first Maine county to pass a Second Amendment sanctuary, Aroostook’s Commissioners heard a resident request for the same action at their monthly meeting. They agreed to discuss the matter in-depth at their next meeting, on July 21.
Piled into folding chairs, bleachers and dotting a nearby hill, friends and family of the Class of 2021 gathered at the Caribou High School soccer field to celebrate the graduation of the school’s 124 seniors.
A showdown between the Madawaska and Fort Fairfield baseball teams ended early on Thursday May 28, when the Owls rolled to a 16-0 victory in five innings.
Theresa Wilcox, long-term Washburn resident, will celebrate her 103rd birthday at High View Manor in Madawaska on May 25.
K-9 officer Jazz is a laid-back chocolate lab who loves kids, but he’s got a dangerous job to do. Jazz is a detection dog with the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department, responsible for sniffing out illegal drugs like fentanyl.
Growing up on his father’s potato farm in Cyr Plantation, Dominic LaJoie said he never could have imagined the size his family’s company, LaJoie Growers LLC, would reach. He also never planned on getting into politics.
The Southern Aroostook boys basketball team took home the Division II championship March 9 after beating top-ranked Van Buren 55-41.
