Aroostook News

Photograph: Fentimans/PA The transatlantic row over the alcohol content of Fentimans Victorian lemonade is fizzing away furiously after the state of Maine banned it from sale to those under 21 on the grounds that it is an "imitation liquor". Trouble began to brew between the Northumberland-based company and the state authorities after a schoolboy ...

Everyone, Northern Maine Community College English Instructor Jennifer Graham said Tuesday, loves a ghost story.

Ora Bates is prepared for her close-up as part of the "Casting Call for Future Faces of Maine" by her mother Nicole Bates of Glenburn and her grandmother Mary Beth Morris on Saturday at the Bangor Mall.

For the second time this month, classes at Northern Maine Community College were canceled and the campus evacuated after a bomb threat.

Town councilors approved a lease with a new pellet manufacturing business on Tuesday evening that could bring up to 40 new jobs to the area.

Members of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs will have greater access to affordable housing on tribal lands thanks to federal funding.

It's good to see the replacement of the overcrowded and outdated Woodstock Middle School is at the top of School District 14's capital construction priority list.

Homeless Services of Aroostook is the recipient of a local donation collection drive coordinated by the Presque Isle Kiwanis Club.

The New Brunswick Trails Council is requesting public assistance to stop ongoing damage to their nonmotorized trail system throughout New Brunswick.

In recent weeks, New Brunswick Trails Council has noted an increasing amount of damage to the Sentier New Brunswick Trails , particularly on the Miramichi line.

I have a problem with the way people speed on Main Street in Aroostook. My issue is that I'm an animal lover with two cats and a dog - minus one cat as of August 16, 2009.

Even when the country is not in a recession, life in Aroostook County is challenging.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a small plane crash in Southern Aroostook over the weekend.

The countdown to 2014 is on with Sunday's announcement that northern Maine - together with neighboring regions in New Brunswick and Quebec - has been selected as the site that year for the Acadian World Congress.

The countdown to 2014 is on with Sunday's announcement that northern Maine - together with neighboring regions in New Brunswick and Quebec - has been selected as the site that year for the Acadian World Congress.

The countdown to 2014 is on with Sunday's announcement that northern Maine - together with neighboring regions in New Brunswick and Quebec - has been selected as the site that year for the Acadian World Congress.

The countdown to 2014 is on with Sunday's announcement that northern Maine - together with neighboring regions in New Brunswick and Quebec - has been selected as the site that year for the Acadian World Congress.

The countdown to 2014 is on with Sunday's announcement that northern Maine - together with neighboring regions in New Brunswick and Quebec - has been selected as the site that year for the Acadian World Congress.

Fredericton Golf Club-mates Sonny Phillips and Larry Simpson share the lead after the opening round of the New Brunswick senior men's golf championship at Aroostook Valley Country Club.

Where is that confounded sign? You'd think that the sign that marks the northernmost point of historic U.S. Route 1 would have pride of place in Fort Kent, Maine, a small frontier town on the Canadian border with precious few tourist attractions besides the sign.