On Sunday, Tasha Harris of Brunswick was spending the weekend at a cabin that family friends rent every few years at Birch Point Campground when she learned that she had arrived at the start of the Island Falls Summerfest.
The Northern Maine Development Commission has received a $250,000 grant that will assist in the construction of a multi-million dollar animal food processing and testing facility in Houlton.
Like any community that is more than two hundred years old, Houlton is rich in history.
Officials with the National Weather Service indicate that this July is on pace to be the warmest month on record at Caribou.
In 1944, the Army established a prisoner-of-war camp in Houlton to house some 2,000 German soldiers captured during World War II.
At the very top of the Aroostook County Superior Courthouse in Houlton, inside a cramped, sweltering attic space, lies a treasure trove of regional history.
Twenty years ago, when the area that is now Riverfront Park was still a tangled mass of trees and litter beside the Meduxnekeag River, it would have been hard for anyone to imagine that the location would soon be a major gathering spot for the community.
Officials in Danforth are raising money for a war memorial to honor those who have fought and died in service to the nation.
At the Houlton Community Market on Saturday, Garth Bean set the mood for shoppers by playing Frank Sinatra tunes out of one of the smartphone symphony stands that he designed.
During a brief Town Council meeting Monday evening, councilors reappointed residents to a municipal committee and accepted federal grant funding for the community.
