Island Falls News

By DAVID WALSH The Brooklin Board of Selectmen opened its meeting Tuesday, November 3, with a discussion with resident and parent Mike Sealander about bicycling.

The town should have its own public access television channel on Polaris Cable by January, an organizer of the local TV effort said Thursday.

CARIBOU, Maine a ' The former deputy chief of the Island Falls Fire Department was indicted Friday by the Aroostook County grand jury on a theft charge in connection with the alleged misappropriation of about $10,000 in town funds.

WARREN : The town of Warren has ordered a new Triple Combination Class A pumper tanker fire truck for $284,746. K&T Fire Equipment of Island Falls had the winning bid on the truck, according to Town Manager Grant Watmough.

ISLAND FALLS, Maine -- A more than month-long dustup in Island Falls that left the town without its fire chief and ambulance director, prompted other firefighters to resign in solidarity with their chief and forced the town to bow out of its ambulance contracts with other towns has improved somewhat, as the department head involved has agreed to ...

Selectmen worked late into the night Thursday to cobble together high-level ambulance coverage for Island Falls and neighboring towns after a series of events left Island Falls without an ambulance director or paramedics.

Some of the troops at this sprawling U.S. air base were in their midteens when they watched the planes hit the World Trade Center's twin towers on television and vowed to join the military.

A woman and a five-year-old Island Falls boy were hospitalized Sunday night, after the ATV they were on crashed in a township near Sherman.

A 27 year-old woman and a 5 year-old boy were involved in an ATV crash around 7pm Sunday evening.

A veteran boat builder who has taught the craft in Washington County for nearly 15 years was named Friday to head the Eastport Boat School, now part of Husson University.

The Fire Department has at least temporarily suspended its contract to receive paramedic ambulance service from the Island Falls Fire Department after that department's assistant fire chief was charged last week with theft, officials said Thursday.

The deputy chief of the Island Falls Fire Department has been charged with felony theft after allegedly misappropriating about $10,000 in town funds.

Nearly 100 duffers from New Brunswick and Maine joined together in Woodstock on Wednesday for the rookie edition of the Woodstock Golf and Curling Club's tour stop on the Upper St.

Katahdin Valley Health Center hopes to finish a $1.7 million expansion to its Houlton Street clinic in December, officials said Tuesday.

The following Thomas College students, from the greater Katahdin region, were named to the dean's list in the Day division for the spring 2009 semester: Mary Cook, of Sangerville - Bachelor of Arts in Psychology Christopher Cooper, from Millinocket - Bachelor of Science, undeclared major Zachary Dever, from Dover-Foxcroft - Bachelor of Science in ...

The owners of a restaurant in Aroostook County is moving to where more customers are.