Ashland News

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His given name was "Kenneth" but, everyone who knew him, always called him "Macaroni." He was what some people might call the "town" character. via Magic City Morning Star

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“If you have a well and the wellhead is flooded, you should have your water tested”

Cleanup of flooded Fort Kent begins Mickey Levesque,right, of Fort Kent uses a front-end loader/back hoe to clear mud from the parking lot for Schoolhouse Apartments on East Main Street in Fort Kent as a local ... via Bangor Daily News

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“Ello, Ello, Hoperation? Could you put me on top of my wife in Fort Kent?”

The last fifteen years of Dad's working life was spent working as a janitor at Pinkham's Lumber Company, which is located just outside of Ashland on the Portage Road. via Magic City Morning Star

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“Well, if you're only going to be gone overnight, that won't be too bad. I guess I could manage if these kids don't give me too much trouble.”

Where we lived in Aroostook County, Maine, it was about the same distance to any large body of water no matter which direction you went. via Magic City Morning Star

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“They helped us make a safe place for animals that are close to calving. "On the morning it happened, we made one telephone call and people came to help get the animals out of the collapsed barn”

John and Noella Craig have discovered the kindness of friends and strangers in the last 10 days as they have tried to bring a semblance of normalcy to their beef cattle farm. via Bangor Daily News

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“Nothing puts the fear of God into a man like being hit in the pocketbook or being rapped in the balls!”

Ashland might have been called a one horse town by some but, it was also a one cop town. via Magic City Morning Star

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“A winter like this is going to be a major setback”

ASHLAND, Maine- Monitors predict that thousands more deer than usual will have succumbed to winter's dangers - starving or frozen to death or left as easy targets for predators - before spring turns warm and ... via Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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In January two sawmills in Northern Maine shut down, putting more than a hundred people out of work.. An effort is underway to help those displaced workers and their families. via WABI-TV Bangor

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A Canadian trucker has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for smuggling 108 pounds of marijuana in a hidden compartment beneath a load of wood chips that was delivered to a plant in Ashland. via WLBZ

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A New Brunswick man has been sentenced to more than three years in jail for his role in a marijuana distribution ring with an Ashland connection. via WAGM TV

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