Limestone News

Like thousands of young American men eager to see action in World War II, Maurice Phair of Limestone enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in May 1941 because the United States had not yet entered the war.

Luke Shorty , executive director of the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone, speaks at a press conference at the school on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, as Don Zillman, president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle, and Michael Sonntag, UMPI provost and vice president for academic affairs, listen.

While it's too soon to speculate whether the Maine Military Authority will receive a 2,000-3,000 Humvee contract through the Israeli Defense Force, the famed refurbishment facility did receive a visit from IDF officials on Monday, including the Israeli agency's chief of tactical wheeled vehicles.

During the Grace Evangelical College and Seminary commencement held at Bangor Baptist Church on May 9, 2012, David H. Stevens of Bangor places a master's hood on his wife, Charyl Chandler-Stevens. She earned her master of arts in biblical studies.

Israeli Defense Force officials plan to visit a northern Maine plant that refurbishes military vehicles as that country considers purchases.

Luke Shorty, executive director of the Maine School and Science and Mathematics, is surrounded by students and staff at the Limestone magnet school in a recent photo.

Altaeros Energies recently completed tests of a 35-foot scale prototype of its Airborne Wind Turbine at the Loring Commerce Center in Limestone, Maine.

Control of a 200-mile pipeline that once carried jet fuel to the former Loring Air Force Base in northern Maine is being auctioned off.