Aroostook News

Tomorrow's Canada Day, and from coast to coast to coast we'll be celebrating 142 years of Canada with peace, order, and good barbequing.

Nearly 100 duffers from New Brunswick and Maine joined together in Woodstock on Wednesday for the rookie edition of the Woodstock Golf and Curling Club's tour stop on the Upper St.

Ed Reevey of the Riverside Country Club is a perennial contender for the Nike Golf New Brunswick Men's Mid-Amateur Championship.

It's impossible to keep up-to-date with all the new websites and databases making their debut on the Internet.

Police say an investigation that started in Great Britain has led to the arrest of a Maine woman who's accused of abusing a child and transmitting the images online.

Katahdin Valley Health Center hopes to finish a $1.7 million expansion to its Houlton Street clinic in December, officials said Tuesday.

As we reported in a past article , federal funding continues to benefit Native American communities in Maine.

Three Aroostook County business owners are in the running to win an award that is being handed out for the first time by two partnering county groups.

An Aroostook County native and author is reconnecting with her roots while also making new memories in The County.

Hold fast to your hat, Jethro; therea TMs oil in that there county. Aroostook County has a new crop.

The Wintergreen Arts Center closed it's location at the Aroostook Center Mall in December and since then has been hard at work to ready their new facility at 149 State Street in Presque Isle.

Spud Speedway owner Greg Veinote, who resurrected the track in 2007 after buying it from Ralph Nason, is optimistic as their season gets under way Sunday with non-points races beginning at 1 p.m. The track had been idle since 2000 until Veinote bought it.

The Aroostook Medical Center was a busy place as members of the staff along with the Presque Isle Fire Department evacuated the Medical/Surgical Telemetry Unit.

New Partnership with Nexus Management Expands Data Capabilities BIDDEFORD, ME, May 15, 2009 - GWI, a locally owned, independent telecommunications company, has announced the completion of a newly constructed, high-capacity fiber optic network between Portland and Brunswick.

Brun-Way Highway Operations will invest $5.5 million in Trans Canada Highway rehabilitation projects in the Upper St.

A state senator from Aroostook County is miffed about a headline in an Augusta newspaper that refers to his proposed extension of Interstate 95 north from Houlton as "a road to nowhere." Democrat Troy Jackson of Allagash issued a statement asserting that it's "pure ignorance" to say that the largest county east of the Mississippi, a land area equal ...

State floodwaters receding, but damage remains Parts of St. John, Aroostook rivers plagued by ice jams The stretch of the Washburn Road in Crouseville remained partially flooded Friday morning but one lane seemed dry enough for some to take their vehicles.

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Reporter's Notebook Aroostook delegation pushes for I-95 extension AUGUSTA, Maine - Aroostook County legislators are asking that federal stimulus dollars be used to jump start the long-stalled expansion of Interstate 95 into northern Maine.

Fed funds to boost child care, vaccines Another $7.6 million in federal economic recovery money is headed to Maine, aimed at increasing access to child care for working parents and improving vaccine compliance in adults and children.