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1 day ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
VAN BUREN, Maine — The Van Buren Town Council is seeking grants, including $1.79 million in congressionally directed spending, to transform the former municipal building on Main Street into a community connectivity hub and small business incubator. The project continues the town’s collaboration with students from Philadelphia’s Drexel University. Last year, students at Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design helped create about a dozen art pieces for Van Buren’s historical pathway.
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1 week ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
FORT KENT, Maine — Maine’s first recovery high school, also known as a sober school, will be based at the University of Maine at Fort Kent in a collaboration with MSAD 27 in Fort Kent next fall. This comes after the Maine Recovery Council unanimously voted in March to award $616,000 to MSAD 27 to fund the program for two years.
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2 weeks ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
FORT KENT, Maine — Maine must reapply for $3 million in federal funding after the U.S. Department of Transportation says that technical issues prevented the completion of grant applications filed in late March to a program that supports rural and tribal projects. Maine filed two applications during that time, which together would have provided $3 million to cover the costs of engineering studies in the communities of Fort Kent, Van Buren, Pittsfield and Norway.
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1 month ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
Flooding throughout Aroostook County has led to the closure of two roads and conditions could worsen over the weekend, according to the Aroostook County Emergency Management Agency. Floodwaters have closed Grimes Road in Caribou, also known as North Caribou Road in Fort Fairfield, which is situated on the town line between the two communities, said Derrick Ouellette, deputy director of Aroostook EMA. The flood was caused by a jam on the Aroostook River. “It’s completely unpassable,” Ouellette said.
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1 month ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
VAN BUREN, Maine – A small group of northern Mainers may have once again broken world records with its most recent ice carousel. The Northern Maine Ice Busters, a group which currently holds the world record for the largest ever ice carousel, may have shattered five new records over the weekend when it carved out the first ever international ice carousel between the United States and Canada.
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1 month ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
MADAWASKA, Maine — Declining vision led Dennis Lavoie of Madawaska to retire early in 2019, at the age of 56. And while he knew he would eventually become totally blind, he decided to start running — a decision that just six years later would lead to him earning a prize known as the Six Star Medal. That medal recognizes runners who have completed six of the most established marathons across the world, in the cities of Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York and Tokyo.
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1 month ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
ST. AGATHA, Maine — The St. Agatha community is coming together to support the family of 13-year-old Teddy Parent, who died Sunday after he was struck by a tractor. On Monday, Wisdom Middle/High School in St. Agatha posted on Facebook about the loss of Parent and also shared ways that residents could help the family. Principal Robby Nadeau, who has been in contact with Parent’s family members, said they gave the school permission to share the post and a photo of the boy with the Bangor Daily News.
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1 month ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
ST. AGATHA, Maine — A 14-year old boy was killed Sunday when he was struck by a moving tractor in the Aroostook County town of St. Agatha. “Preliminary investigation is that a juvenile was on foot around the rear of the tractor as it was being operated and was struck by the tractor,” said Shannon Moss, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety. The crash happened on Chasse Road at roughly 12:41 pm on Sunday, March 9, according to Moss.
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1 month ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
FORT FAIRFIELD, Maine — Route 1A, also known as Limestone Road, was closed Friday morning due to a rolled over fuel truck, the Fort Fairfield Police Department said on Facebook. As of 11 a.m., there were no further updates on the situation. Police in the post wrote that the road will be closed for an extended period of time. “Please seek an alternate route and we will advise when the road is reopened,” the post concluded.
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1 month ago | 
bangordailynews.com | Christopher Bouchard
FORT KENT, Maine — Martin Massicotte of Saint-Tite, Quebec, was declared winner of the Can-Am’s 250-mile race early Tuesday morning in a social media post by race organizers. Massicotte finished the race in two days and 33 minutes. In second place, Remy Leduc of Glenwood, New Brunswick, finished with a time of two days, one hour and 29 minutes. And in third place, Jaye Foucher of Wentworth, New Hampshire, finished the race in two days, five hours and six minutes.
