Bill to restore Loring’s arch hangar fails after conflicting votes
The hangar is at the center of a conflict between the museum, which wants to preserve the huge structure, and developers who see it as a potential business asset.
The hangar is at the center of a conflict between the museum, which wants to preserve the huge structure, and developers who see it as a potential business asset.
The new budget totals $11.9 million, largely due to incentives that Police Chief Michael Gahagan and City Manager Penny Thompson proposed offering to the city’s police officers.
The Frenchville-based center offers 11 different programs for high school and middle school students in the St. John Valley.
Alice and Leonard Lincoln, who own Houlton Farms Dairy with their children, received the Chamber’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
More than 200 packed the Northern Maine Community College gym for the event.
On Feb. 28 students of the Loring Honor Guard and Roger Felix, the Loring business engagement coordinator/Honor Guard sergeant major. traveled to the state capital in Augusta to present the colors at the opening ceremony of the Maine State Senate.
Laura Bagley is leading efforts to start Aroostook County’s first local food council, in conjunction with the Maine Network of Community Food Councils.
With tens of thousands of visitors expected to gather in parts of Maine to view the eclipse, planners in Houlton and beyond are taking precautions with the expectation the weather will be less than stellar.
On March 1, Aroostook Waste Solutions, co-owned by Caribou, Limestone, Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle, began a pilot program aimed at decreasing the financial burden of blight.
Leaders of the Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races in Fort Kent came to Presque Isle Friday to donate more than 700 pounds of dog food to the Central Aroostook Humane Society.