Van Buren News

Retirement from a life in banking prompts sculptor Claude O'Donnell of Holden to unleash the creative hippie hidden in the gray flannel suit A piece called "Fed Ex" by former drummer and banker Claude O'Donnell adorns a shelf at the Blue Hill Library as part of an exhibit this month.

The 32nd Annual Acadian Festival will take place June 25-28 in Madawaska, Maine.

Small-business owners in Van Buren will be making upgrades and repairs to their buildings with a $99,800 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Enterprise Grants program.

CEO of company strips down and walks from Maine to California tobring awareness to people helping people and charities.

School administrators hope the third time is the charm when SAD 27 and SAD 10 voters go to the polls for a special referendum May 28 to decide the fate of a proposed Alternative Organizational Structure.

Maine Warden Service aerial photographs taken yesterday show ice dams that are being monitored by Maine emergency management officials.

Ice jams are continuing to pose threats along several northern Maine rivers. The National Weather Service said an ice jam remained locked in place for the fourth day in a row Friday on the Aroostook River in Washburn, flooding portions of Route 164.

John River between St. Leonard, New Brunswick, and Van Buren on Wednesday. On Thursday the center of the river was running clear, but more ice is heading toward the bridge from Grand Isle and is expected to arrive today.

Emergency management officials are keeping an eye on rain-swollen and ice-jammed rivers in northern Maine.

Maine is slated to receive nearly 100 million dollars in stimulus funding for construction and renovation of federal facilities including 39 million dollars for the border station and port of entry in Van Buren.

Arrested and charged with trafficking in OxyContin, a Class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $20,000, were: a ' Casie Levesque, 26, of Madawaska.

Maine recorded its coldest temperature ever - a frigid 50 degrees below zero - when a blast of Arctic air hit New England last month.

Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts -50 F new all time record low confirmed in Maine 10 02 2009 You may recall I wrote ...

Teeth are chattering in New England, where scientists just spent about a month scrutinizing weather data before proclaiming Tuesday that, yes, Maine has pulled even with Vermont in bragging rights for the ...

The temperature was -50 in Big Black River Friday night, -41 in Van Buren, -24 in Millinocket, according to the Bangor Daily News, and by our thermometer -18 here on the balmy Maine coast.

Residents in extreme northern Maine on Sunday saw up to a 40-degree shift in temperatures as the mercury climbed above zero for the first time in three days.

Temperatures take dive Arctic cold setting record lows across Maine Bone-chilling cold bludgeoned Maine on Friday, as unofficial temperatures dipped to the minus 40s and even lower in northern parts of the ...

At 7:30 Friday morning a USGS gage recorded negative 50 degrees fahrenheit in Big Black River.

Never doubt the work done by Lions makes a huge difference in the lives of community residents, District Governor Rod Wright said when he visited the Tobique Lions Club in Plaster Rock on Tuesday, Jan.

The new year did not start off very well for a Van Buren resident. According to Van Buren Fire Chief Dana Violette, firefighters were called out around 9:00 this morning to a mobile home at 169 Champlain Street ...