Monica Pettengill Jerkins

MADAWASKA - Elementary school students in Madawaska have let the dogs out and are raising funds for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

UPDATED - Tuesday, May 28 at 9:45 a.m.

ORIGINAL POST - 12:15 p.m., Saturday, May 25, 2013. Firefighters are on the scene. Fiddlehead Focus will update as more details become available. 

FRENCHVILLE - Before noon on a rainy Memorial weekend Saturday, Frenchville firefighters responded to a structure fire on U.S. Route 1 located diagonally across the road from Michaud Funeral Home.

I have a special, albeit unhealthy, relationship with food – right down to the way I eat certain things.

ST. AGATHA – Many people will remember the former Lakeview Restaurant co-owner Carol (Lizotte) Derosier of St. Agatha greeting her customers with a cheerful smile, or engaged in some thoughtful conversation with a member of her restaurant staff, but each of Carol’s three daughters have inherited traits from their mother that, even after her passing in early April, keep her presence in the St. John Valley community alive and well.

MADAWASKA - Some might say that the Central Building Supply annual open house has become an anticipated spring event over the years, and this year plenty of people showed up to enjoy free hot dogs and beverages, to sign up for door prizes, and also to take advantage of a store-wide 20 percent off sale on selected items. Vendors were on hand to answer customers questions about various products, which include some new lines this year.

MADAWASKA – After a permitted prescribed burn escaped those attending it Tuesday evening, Madawaska Fire Chief James Soucy ordered that the town join the ranks of other communities and cancel all existing permits effective immediately.

Correction - An earlier version of this article referred to the building that now houses the Inn of Acadia as the former Acadia House. Actually, it is on the former Wisdom House. 

WATERTOWN, Mass. / Madawaska – Lori Ann (Michaud) Richardson, a 28-year-old 2002 Madawaska High School graduate, joined nearly a million other Boston area residents under lockdown Friday morning as police and military conducted an unprecedented search for one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings less than two miles from her home in Watertown, Mass.