Ashland News

Chebeague Island is just a short ferry ride from the mainland. Explore the island on foot or on a bicycle.

The mill's sulphite operation is set to restart on July 5 while its groundwood pulp is scheduled to resume on June 22.

Fraser Papers Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection in courts in Canada and the U.S. While company officials say one Maine mill is safe, workers at two other mills in Maine could soon be out of work.

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed a home at 884 Griffin Ridge Road on Wednesday afternoon.

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.

More than a thousand Mainers who have been laid off from 21 companies from South Portland to Baileyville to Ashland because of unfair trade practices are poised to receive expanded benefits under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

On Monday, hea ll finally get the recognition thata s his due Bert Skinner, 85, of Belfast, was deployed to Burma in 1944 to join Merrilla s Marauders, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit , a special forces unit that fought behind Japanese lines in the Burma Campaign during World War II.

About 140 workers have been called back to work at the Fraser Timber sawmill in Masardis nearly five months after the mill shut down.

It could be one of the first signs that the U.S. might be slowly climbing out of the recession.

Two rural towns are looking to the city of Presque Isle to take over their emergency dispatching services.

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Gov. John Baldacci said northern Maine has sustained less damage from spring flooding than a year ago, but that state and local officials need to help some people driven from their homes.

Governor Baldacci traveled to Ashland Saturday to get an update on flooding in Aroostook County.

A massive fire completely destroyed a pellet mill in Ashland Tuesday morning while three workers were inside.

Little is left of a pellet mill in the Northern Maine town of Ashland after a late night fire broke out and quickly engulfed the entire structure.

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More than 500 people who work at the Fraser Paper Mill in Madawaska and pulp mill in Edmunston, New Brunswick are being asked to take a two week furlough.

Katahdin Forest Products , parent company of Katahdin Cedar Log Homes , has completed the purchase of SWP Industriesa saw mill in Ashland, ME.