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Maine cemetery caretakers are few. An Aroostook city rallied the community to find a solution.
21+ hour, 46+ min ago (1030+ words) As the board of directors for Evergreen Cemetery stood talking by the road that snakes through its rolling acres on a recent summer day, a woman pulled in and rolled down her window to tell them how great the place…...
A rural Maine town's only grocery store is headed to foreclosure auction
3+ week, 4+ day ago (396+ words) The only grocery store in a rural Aroostook County town will be auctioned off next month after its owner defaulted on the store’s mortgages. The auction for Ashland Food Mart, in the North Maine Woods gateway town of Ashland, is…...
Wintergreen receives grant from Maine Community Foundation
1+ mon, 4+ hour ago (361+ words) PRESQUE ISLE, Maine—Wintergreen Arts Center recently received a $10,000 grant from the Maine Community Foundation through the 2026 Community Building grant program for operational support. “We are so grateful for everyone at the Maine Community Foundation,” Allyson Midgley, Wintergreen’s executive director,…...
In Maine’s Swedish Colony, Midsommar is a cultural revival
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (759+ words) In the early afternoon on the eve of the longest day of the year, Sven Bondeson is hunched over a poplar pole. Twine in one hand, a bundle of lupines in the other, he sets down the flowers, ties them…...
More Maine police departments are leasing cruisers
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1109+ words) The odometer in the Caribou Police Department’s oldest cruiser is nearing 175,000 miles. Nearly half the department’s cruisers are more than 8 years old. Caribou spent nearly $100,000 on two new cruisers within the last year and roughly double the industry average on…...
Aroostook CA$H Coalition surpasses goal, completes highest number of tax returns in Maine
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (823+ words) The County The Aroostook CA$H Coalition is celebrating a standout 2025 tax season after surpassing its own program goal and completing more tax returns than any other CA$H coalition in Maine. With 1,232 total returns filed — exceeding the coalition’s target…...
Scheff earns Northern Maine Community College’s highest student honor
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (298+ words) PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Joshua Scheff, a student in Northern Maine Community College’s Network Administration and Cybersecurity program, has been named Student of the Year in recognition of his academic excellence, leadership and service to the campus community. Each year, one…...
Northern Maine's largest trade show kicks off with a big crowd
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (854+ words) Parking quickly filled up and guests started parking down the road from Madawaska’s Multi-Purpose center as the town’s Top O’ Maine Trade Show kicked off on Saturday morning. It is the largest trade show north of Bangor, and this year…...
Maine writer Cathie Pelletier retells an Acadian legend
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (687+ words) Cathie Pelletier started writing a historical novel about the expulsion of Acadian refugees in 1998. Now, nearly 30 years later, she has released “Evangeline’s Journey.” The book retells Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie.” The poem depicts Evangeline and…...
Rural Maine homeless shelters say they could close without more state funding
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1122+ words) From the late evening into the early morning, Anthony Rand mans the front desk inside the only emergency warming shelter in northern Maine. He watches the security cameras, cleans the building and answers questions from residents riding out cold winter…...