Presque Isle

6 months ago

Forbes earns Principal’s Award

Crystal Forbes of Fort Fairfield, a senior at Fort Fairfield Middle High School, was selected to receive the 2024 Principal’s Award, Principal Garrett Martin announced. 

6 months ago

What is a crazy quilt?

Antique quilts are revered today often for the sentimental value as well as the intricate hand-sewn detail and patterns.  There is one type of antique quilt, however, that stands out from most others — the “crazy quilt”.  

6 months ago

Lions plan Memorial Day parade

The Mapleton Lions Club will conduct its traditional annual Memorial Day Parade and Remembrance Ceremony on Monday, May 27.

6 months ago

Harry Pipes: merchant, actor, city father

Harry Rufus Pipes was born in Presque Isle on Sept. 8, 1878, at the old Presque Isle House Hotel. His father, William, originally from New Brunswick, had moved to Presque Isle in 1876. 

6 months ago

AMHC highlights Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Aroostook Mental Health Services, Inc. (AMHC) has joined Mental Health America in highlighting its “Where to Start: Mental Health in a Changing World” campaign. 

6 months ago

Graves martial arts students garner awards

Students from the Presque Isle, Mars Hill and Caribou branches of the Graves Institute of Self Defense traveled to Bucksport recently to attend Tracy’s annual spring karate and Ju-Jitsu tournament. 

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6 months ago

Mathematical ancestry

By Nancy Battick Peter Rowlett, a mathematics columnist for the magazine New Scientist, recently wrote a column of interest to genealogists. He’d discovered that one of King Henry VIII’s Masters of the Mint was a man named Ralph Rowlett.  Peter wondered if he could be related to or descended from Ralph.  Genealogists would tackle this […]

6 months ago

Hooked on Fishing is slated Saturday

In preparation for the Presque Isle Elks’ Hooked on Fishing, Not Drugs youth fishing derby, the Enfield hatchery of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will stock Mantle Lake in Presque Isle with 600 8- to 11-inch trout.