The Presque Isle City Council gave a dangerous building notice to Fernand Martin last September, giving the property owner 30 days to abate substandard conditions in several downtown properties.
The towns of Blaine and Perham each held annual town meetings and elections recently.
Students, faculty and staff of SAD 1 are grieving the loss of Presque Isle High School math teacher Paul Ballerstein, who died unexpectedly on Friday morning.
After two people associated with the Presque Isle Middle School and the Mapleton Elementary School tested positive for the coronavirus, 59 students, staff and faculty who had close contact with them must be quarantined until next week.
As a way to say thank-you for all the work County volunteers have done over the years to support the Can-Am Crown International Dog Sled Races, Irving Woodlands this week committed $30,000 to support the Aroostook County Action Program’s efforts to fight hunger.
They’ve already started planning where to place the new teleconferencing equipment. And if all goes as planned, an additional seven rooms at University of Maine at Presque Isle and one in Houlton will be equipped to include students from remote locations in live classrooms by the fall semester.
The tri-towns of Mapleton, Castle Hill and Chapman held three separate in-person town hall meetings to approve budgets, spending and elect officials.
The Aroostook County Action Program childcare program expansion has made space for 24 more children in Presque Isle.
They’re heading to Al’s Diner in Mars Hill on Thursday morning for the first of many diner breakfast bus trips on tap for the Presque Isle Recreation and Parks Department.
With a novel approach to advancing careers, the University of Maine at Presque Isle’s new master’s-level program in organizational leadership offers students an opportunity to advance at their own pace.
