More than 30 years after walking the halls of Caribou High School, Mark Holmquist returned to where his journey began — this time not as a student, but as a decorated veteran and former member of the U.S. Army’s elite Old Guard.
The University of Maine at Presque Isle received the largest financial gift in campus history Tuesday. The surprise $2.1 million bequest came from the Don and Linda Zillman estate. The former UMPI president died in 2023, and his wife, Linda, died in September. Along with launching a Zillman professorship to benefit faculty research, the couple […]
Matthew Oliver, principal Mill Pond School in Hodgdon, announces the honor roll for the first trimester of the 2025-26 school year as follows: Grade six, high honors: Faith Belisle, Jeeda Bossie, Azorah Clark, Thomas Hand, Paisley Hovey, Alise Miller, Noah Sloat, Logan Smith; honors: Destiny Blake, Will Carton, Matthias Dulinsky, Camren Grover, Amelia Hemingway, Liliana […]
District 1 of the Maine Veterans of Foreign Wars, along with the Lister Knowlton VFW Post 9389 of Caribou, are pleased to announce Maren Moir as the VFW Teacher of the Year for both the District and Post levels. Moir achieved these awards due to her dedicated work ethic to not only her students but […]
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Anderson Giles, a retired University of Maine at Presque Isle art professor who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to preserving the history of World War II and led numerous trips to the Pacific islands where historic battles were fought, is part of a documentary now nominated for […]
“Can we do a better job of educating our kids together than we can separately?”
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — For a second year, the University of Maine at Presque Isle will host a Trent’s Tree in its Campus Center as part of a statewide initiative created for those who are coping with grief and loss during the holidays. This interactive holiday project was created by the Maine-based nonprofit Stay; For […]
An Aroostook County woman’s healthy eating crusade that links farms with local schools is is getting attention from farmers statewide.
“It just sent a strong message to me, even as a kid, that what you are living now is an important thing.”
The discovery shows that for many with Acadian heritage, their roots are more diverse than they imagined.
