HODGDON, Maine — A Patten man suffered serious injuries July 26, 2016 in a tractor-trailer crash on U.S. Route 1 in Hodgdon, according to police.
Maine State Police Cpl. Dennis Quint said in a written statement last Wednesday that the crash took place just before 5:30 p.m. on a stretch of road known as the Calais Road.
BLAINE, Maine — A local couple lost all of their possessions Monday after a fire destroyed their rental home.
OAKFIELD, Maine — Up until this past spring, Marvin Collier’s life seemed to be going smoothly. Along with loving and supportive family and friends, he also enjoyed his job as a conductor-engineer at the Maine Northern Railway in Oakfield.
HOULTON, Maine — Denise Brown of Houlton still recalls marveling at how her pre-kindergarten daughter, Caeley, learned to hold a pencil and began whipping out vivid images of butterflies and flowers at an age when other mother’s refrigerator doors were still covered with stick figures standing next to crooked houses.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — It is no secret that potatoes are a great source of potassium, according to Don Flannery, executive director of the Maine Potato Board.
For decades, industry officials have lauded the nutritional benefits of the state’s signature crop, which has just 110 calories in a medium potato, along with zero fat and 620 milligrams of potassium if eaten with the skin, according to the Maine Potato Board.
Train ride helps cancer patient
OAKFIELD, Maine — Up until this past spring, Marvin Collier’s life seemed to be going smoothly. Along with loving and supportive family and friends, he also enjoyed his job as a conductor-engineer at the Maine Northern Railway in Oakfield.
HOULTON, Maine — Town Councilors on Monday evening introduced a measure to transfer $165,000 from the municipal surplus account in an effort to reduce taxes, holding firm to the suggestion despite some disagreement over whether that figure was the best choice to institute tax relief.
The town customarily sets its tax rate in July, and in the past, the town has dipped into its surplus fund to offset taxation and hold or lower the tax rate.
HOULTON, Maine — Just after 1 p.m. Friday on a section of Evergreen Cemetery called “Angel’s Hill,” Ralph Boyington of Houlton negotiated his lawn mower along a downhill grade as his colleague James Wallace stood nearby with a weed whacker.
HOULTON, Maine — A Mapleton woman is hoping that an incident in which a piglet died after it allegedly was left in a hot car during the Houlton Agricultural Fair will draw more attention to an online petition she started in an effort to remove pig scrambles and sheep riding competitions from annual fair events.
Kim Lauritsen is the owner of Moon Dance Studios in Presque Isle. She said on Monday that she found both pig scrambles, in which children try to catch piglets running loose in a pen, and sheep riding competitions, in which children try to ride on the back of a sheep as long as possible in order to win a prize, “totally unnecessary and inhumane in an agricultural community.”
MARS HILL, Maine — When Betsy Allen arrived in Morocco in 2013 as part of a one week volunteer teaching experience, she believed she would spend her week in the capital city of Rabat educating underprivileged children.
Instead, she was relocated to work at an after school cultural center in Casablanca, where she spent her week with some of the nation’s poorest children and where she met a teenager with such severely deformed feet that it “just made me want to cry.”
“Instantly, I knew I wanted to help him,” Allen said of Abdelkhalek El Malyani, the teen she met at the Sidi Moumen Cultural Center. She said Abdelkhalek’s feet and heels face inward and are so deformed that he has trouble walking and is in pain.
