HOULTON, Maine — Officials from several towns across Aroostook County are considering the impact of the legalization of marijuana on their communities, with at least one community imposing an emergency moratorium to temporarily prevent marijuana dispensaries from setting up shop.
HOULTON, Maine — Officials from several towns across Aroostook County are considering the impact of the legalization of marijuana on their communities, with at least one community imposing an emergency moratorium to temporarily prevent marijuana dispensaries from setting up shop.
Question 1, which sought to legalize recreational marijuana, unofficially won on Election Day by a vote of 381,692 to 377,619. But with a difference of just over 4,000 votes, a recount has been scheduled, according to Kristen Muszynski, spokeswoman for Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap.
Apple plan restricts development
REED PLANTATION, Maine — One of the world’s largest tech companies and a top-ranked conservation organization who last year partnered to buy a large swath of land in southern Aroostook County are again joining forces to donate a conservation easement on the more than 32,400 acres known as Reed Forest.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Marianne Henderson of Presque Isle said last Thursday that it has been more than a month since she allowed her three children to use the dishwasher in her kitchen.
Timothy DeLuca
HOULTON, Maine — The deputy chief of the Old Orchard Beach Police Department has been selected as the new chief of the Houlton Police Department.
Timothy DeLuca, who was officially hired for post by the Houlton Town council on Monday evening, will become the new chief starting on Jan. 3, 2017, according to Town Manager Butch Asselin.
DeLuca told councilors at the meeting that he is “very honored” to be getting the opportunity to head the department.
“I was really surprised that it sold so quickly,” Peterson said on Thursday. “I had heard horror stories from friends about homes that were on the market for a year or more.”
Asselin said that the municipality is currently in litigation in probate court with the estate of Jerry Cardone, a 74-year-old artist who died on Dec. 23, 2015 in Bangor.
Over the past 23 years, Cardone — known locally as “The Dinosaur Man” — had displayed wood carvings and scrap metal constructions of dinosaurs, aliens, palm trees, totem poles and other pop-culture pieces in his yard.
HOULTON, Maine — More than a year after a plane crashed into a wooded area in the community, killing the pilot, officials from the National Transportation Safety Board are still compiling a report about the aviation accident.
Although the preliminary report about the accident that killed 30-year-old pilot Bakary Doucoure of Le Blanc, France, at 2 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2015, was completed shortly after it occurred, the final report into the crash of his twin-engine Piper PA-44-180 plane while conducting an instrument approach into Houlton International Airport has not yet been released.
For the second time in the past 15 months, a statewide prescription drug abuse prevention program is facing a struggle to secure long-term funding, an official with the agency said last week.
