Grand Isle woman dies in single-vehicle crash that snaps off utility pole
A Grand Isle woman died in a single-vehicle crash on Route 1 in St. David on Friday afternoon, Feb. 19. There were no other passengers. The driver, Louise Gorneault, 63, was westbound when she swerved...
View ArticleSusan Collins calls on Biden administration to ease US-Canada border...
Sen. Susan Collins is pleading with the Biden administration to reconsider the restrictions on the U.S.-Canada border crossings that were imposed in March last year due to the pandemic.Collins, a...
View ArticlePandemic-altered snowmobile season puts the squeeze on St. John Valley hotels
Before this season, when guests told Jean Ouellette they’d “never seen a winter like this before,” she would call their bluff. Ouellette has been running Martin’s Motel in Madawaska for nearly 20...
View ArticleFourth-generation Aroostook farmer is now the nation’s top potato lobbyist
MADAWASKA, Maine — Growing up on his father’s potato farm in Cyr Plantation, Dominic LaJoie said he never could have imagined the size his family’s company, LaJoie Growers LLC, would reach. He also...
View ArticleNational phone scam impersonating border protection agents targets...
A new phone scam targeting residents’ banking information is being reported across the country, including in Madawaska. The call is a prerecorded message, where a voice impersonates a Customs and...
View ArticleRecreational marijuana is coming to The County
Based in an old farmhouse on Route 1 in Grand Isle, Full Bloom Cannabis is about to become the first adult use marijuana retail dispensary in Aroostook County. Owner and founder Steve Rusnack...
View ArticleMadawaska boy rescues injured pigeon and sets it free after weeks of...
MADAWASKA, Maine — Suni Saint-Cyr, 10, was walking by his garage on a wintery morning when he heard a rustling on the ground. There, with its feathers fluffed up to shield itself from the weather, was...
View ArticleNew Brunswick’s slower vaccination rate will delay opening border with Maine
MADAWASKA, Maine — Thelma Thibodeau, 83, who lives in Edmundston, New Brunswick, is finally getting her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on March 30 — and she can’t wait. “I don’t go out much...
View ArticleMaine company wins bid to build new international bridge in Madawaska
MADAWASKA, Maine — Woolwich construction company Reed & Reed Inc. has won the Maine Department of Transportation contract for the construction of the new Madawaska international bridge between the...
View ArticleUntreated wastewater floods St. John River during early snowmelt and heavy...
MADAWASKA, Maine — A chunk of ice wedged in a frozen Madawaska pipe was all it took to send tens of thousands of gallons of untreated wastewater flooding into the St. John River during a March 26...
View ArticleBorder closure makes key Madawaska bridge construction details uncertain
MADAWASKA, Maine — With two massive federal infrastructure projects coming to Madawaska this summer, construction promises to transform the face of the downtown area, though final details on both...
View ArticleFire in Utah causes Aroostook town website failures
MADAWASKA, Maine — Madawaska’s website has been out of commission since April 4, but the problem has nothing to do with Maine. More than 2,500 miles away — in Ogden, Utah — a WebNX datacenter...
View ArticleAroostook town will sell tax-acquired properties on Zillow
VAN BUREN, Maine — The Aroostook County town of Van Buren hopes the seller-friendly market in Maine’s booming rural real estate economy will turn tax-acquired property into cash through the online...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and international construction rules complicate already challenging...
MADAWASKA, Maine — Building Maine’s longest international bridge through one of the state’s iciest rivers would have been a complicated project in any year. But 70-person Zoom calls, fluctuating...
View ArticleShortages of parts and drivers turn Maine’s trucking industry into a...
MADAWASKA, Maine — Trucks that shuttle goods to and from grocery stores, pharmacies and factories across Maine are sitting in garages, waiting for new parts. While truckers became frontline workers...
View ArticleSeveral animals die in Madawaska apartment complex blaze
A multi-story apartment complex at 143 School Ave. in Madawaska caught fire Monday afternoon, and dozens of firefighters from Fort Kent, Grand Isle and Madawaska worked to extinguish the blaze. All 11...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau won’t ease border restrictions until 75 percent of Canadians...
MADAWASKA, Maine — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Tuesday that three-quarters of Canadians must be vaccinated before the government considers easing restrictions on the Canada-U.S....
View ArticleDepartment of Homeland Security says US-Canada border will remain closed at...
MADAWASKA, Maine — The border between the U.S. and Canada will remain closed until at least June 21, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on its Twitter page this morning. This comes one...
View ArticleDespite industry crisis, smaller ambulance departments are growing in The County
MADAWASKA, Maine — Aroostook County has an ambulance problem. Costs for equipment and training are higher than ever, insurance reimbursement rates are lower than they were in the 1990s and nobody can...
View ArticleAn Aroostook town got into trouble with a Barstool Sports host over renaming...
MADAWASKA, Maine — A decision to temporarily rename a Madawaska road ended in a Twitter storm as two unlikely forces collided: longtime Massachusetts sports radio personality Kirk Minihane and the...
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