Stories by Jen Lynds

Residents recall boy lost on a mountain

Brian Crane, 48, of Houlton, vividly remembers the day approximately 38 years ago that author Donn Fendler came to his school after his class had read and extensively studied his book, “Lost on A Mountain In Maine.”

Maine drug abuse program seeks funding

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 earlier this week.

Residents recall favorite winter storm vehicles

HOULTON, Maine — More than 20 years later, Kristi Mcatee still remembers the 42-mile “white knuckle” ride that she and a friend took over ice- and snow-covered roads and the “faithful” car that delivered them home safely.

HOULTON, Maine — More than 20 years later, Kristi Mcatee still remembers the 42-mile “white knuckle” ride that she and a friend took over ice- and snow-covered roads and the “faithful” car that delivered them home safely.

Mcatee, a Houlton resident, said Friday that she was attending college at the University of Maine at Presque Isle when a heavy freezing rain front moved through the area. Mcatee, who lived on campus but commuted home each weekend to work at the former Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on North Street, was driving home with a friend.

On Blaine potato farm,

teens buck trend, work harvest

BLAINE, Maine — This potato harvest, as she has for every one for about half of her life, Sydney Garrison of Blaine rises to the sound of her alarm clock at 5:30 a.m. so that she can be at work on her family farm one hour later.

HOULTON, Maine — For Mary, the pseudonym of a decade-long victim of horrific domestic and sexual abuse, every waking minute of her relationship with her abuser was spent either enduring or covering up acts of violence.