University of Maine at Fort Kent nursing students graduated from the program, with 54 of them attending the 33rd Annual UMFK Nursing Pinning Ceremony on Friday, May 12th at the Fox Auditorium on the UMFK campus.

The Madawaska Fire Department extinguished a fire Tuesday, July 25, at machine No. 7 at the Twin Rivers Paper Co. mill.

Commercial growers of recreational marijuana are one step closer to being able to open shop in Houlton.

Maine Forest Rangers on Monday responded to a fire at Abol Bridge Campground, just outside Baxter State Park.

Maine Forest Rangers responded to Abol Campground on the Golden Road where a shed caught fire Monday.

A man with four jobs who graduated summa cum laude from college in his fifties, Steve Pelletier of St. John embodies the work ethic for which folks from The County are notorious throughout northern New England.

A dip in temperature and humidity Monday afternoon made for great walking weather, which 2-year-old Benjamin James Gagnon and his father Isaac made good use of.

The new musical, “The Story of Nu-Z'autres,” presented by young performers as part of the Acadia of Lands and Forests festival is drawing good crowds and reviews.

Seventy-five students of all ages took part in a Summer Reading Celebration Day Wednesday, July 19, at the Fort Kent Elementary School.

To hear my friends tell it, the Rusty Metal Farm chickens are among the most spoiled and pampered on the planet.

Hundreds of fans enjoyed music, food and friends, as the 23rd annual Edmundston Jazz and Blues Festival kicked off on June 23.

Cody Johnson of Fort Kent and Russell Currier of Stockholm are among several local athletes who have trained at one time or another at Fort Kent’s winter sports facility and subsequently found spots on U.S. ski and biathlon teams.

My reason for writing this letter has two purposes -- to work on healing from this horrific loss and to ask for better cell phone service between Van Buren and Caribou.

I shall not allow either Paul A. Cyr or James Chasse to determine my view of the Pelletier Avenue controversy because I see two sides of the coin.

From 1993 to 2006, I was a proud resident of Houlton, My children attended Houlton schools; many of my closest friends still live in Houlton or the surrounding towns.

Editorial cartoon for July 19, 2017

I’m flattered that the Ouellette family bestowed the phrase “arm chair lawyers” on myself, and a few other valley residents, responding to the Ouellette-Ezzy conflict; but then again, everyone knows what folks all really think about lawyers, so I’ll demur on that one.

Genealogists have an unwritten code of ethics.

Fort Kent driver Austin Theriault was in the hunt for his fourth victory in the ARCA Racing Series on Friday night in the Sioux Chief PowerPEX 200 at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana but a late-race caution flag, caused by rain, proved to be detrimental and he wound up finishing fourth.

Madawaska School committee members voted Monday to hire Ben Gagnon as the new boys head soccer coach, according to Superintendent Gisele Dionne.

One hundred and thirty two golfers gathered at Portage Hills Country Club Wednesday, July 19, for the Upper St. John Valley Senior Golf Association’s fourth tournament of the summer.

The second senior ladies golf event of the summer was held at the Fort Kent Golf Club on July 12.

Scott Pelletier is hoping that a short basketball camp this summer will not only give his players some extra practice time, but help build future players.

Several Aroostook County athletes claimed victories and many others placed at the Maine Recreation and Parks Association state track and field meet held July 11 at Cameron Stadium.