Ashland News Archives

“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

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

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

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

“Miss Stimson is one of the ablest and most enterprising business women of New England, and has for many years successfully conducted a large timber and lumber manufacturing business in the face of keen competition”

Cook Lew Cole and his family, Alice, Tena, and Sadie Cole, worked in a lumber camp, circa 1920, in the Palmer area. via Bangor Daily News