Fort Kent News

Anxious to showcase national pride and honor those who have given their lives for the U.S., a Fort Kent woman has purchased a wealth of flags to line Main Street in the community.

A sizable grant from the Maine Department of Conservation is being used at the University of Maine at Fort Kent to make two of its largest buildings more energy efficient.

Town officials are looking for ways to expand offerings at the Francis Malcolm Science Center , located on Route 1A, including by applying for a Community Development Block Grant and putting on fundraisers.

A woman who may be missing from the Ft. Kent area has surfaced in Oregon and police in that state are hoping folks in Maine may have information that could help them identify her.

The University of Maine at Fort Kent honored members of its faculty and staff for their service to the University at a recent ceremony on campus.

The Maine Tourism Association held their 91st Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon on Friday, May 18th at the Hilton Garden Inn Freeport Downtown.

Thirty-five awards and fourteen scholarships were presented to deserving University of Maine at Fort Kent students at the senior class banquet and awards convocation on Friday, May 11 in the UMFK Sports Center.

The University of Maine at Fort Kent will take a major step toward energy independence next week, when it dedicates its new, wood-to-energy heating system.

Sixty-eight University of Maine at Fort Kent nursing students graduated from the program, with 33 of them attending the 2012 Pinning Ceremony on Friday, May 11 at the Fox Auditorium on the UMFK campus.

I first began to imagine and write about a self-propelled trip from Kittery to Fort Kent back in 2005.A My original plans for the southernmost leg of the trip started with a fast bike ride from Kittery to Route 2 in western Maine and then a switch to the Appalachian Trail.

Latest report : it's going to be FUN: June 2, 4-9 PM. Games, prizes, cotton candy, pop corn, petting zoo, Smokey the Bear, mystery guests: celebrities and performers, food, music with DJ Express, lots of crazy dancing, maybe some Karaoke.

One hundred sixty-nine students received degrees at the 130th commencement exercises at the University of Maine at Fort Kent this past weekend.

FORT KENT, Maine - The University of Maine, Fort Kent's Blake Library Gallery and Therese Provenzano, UMFK Adjunct Visual Art Instructor, will host its fourth annual "Young Artist Exhibition" featuring talented young artists from the St.

U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe is delivering a commencement address Saturday as thousands of students receive diplomas at Maine's state universities.

Officials with an establishment that has five locations in Aroostook County announced Friday they are taking over outpatient physical therapy treatment of patients at Northern Maine Medical Center.

From her office in Belfast, speech language pathologist Erica Ricker works with a man suffering from Parkinson's symptoms.

The University of Maine at Fort Kent will offer a Crime Scene Investigation Camp this summer for students entering their sophomore, junior, or senior years of high school.

In August of 2012 I'll be traveling on a completely self-propelled trip, from Kittery to Fort Kent.

It was 2002 and Toussaint was volunteering with Medecins Sans Frontieres - known as Doctors Without Borders in this country - in Sri Lanka.

A compliance check recently conducted in Aroostook County to ensure that businesses that sell alcohol are complying with Maine's liquor laws produced disappointing news, as nearly half of the establishments targeted were cited by police.