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Houlton brings lost stories to life this Memorial Day
HOULTON, Maine (WAGM) - Members of the Houlton community expressed their gratitude to those who have given their lives for their country by beginning the morning with a ceremony at Soldier Hill Cemetery. At the cemetery, community members, US veterans, and Canadian veterans gathered to pay their respects. Aaron Bouma,...
Meet Meghan Peters, Hodgdon’s Five-Sport Athlete
HODGDON, Maine (WAGM) - Hodgdon Senior Meghan Peters has an impressive high school resume. She’s a member of the Hawks’ softball, basketball, volleyball and soccer teams as well as the leading scorer for the Northern Maine Moose Lacrosse program. Oh, and she’s her class valedictorian too. Why...
Medical Monday: Chaplain Services
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - AR Gould hospital in the 1970s considered spiritual care essential to patient care and this belief continues to today. We explain more in this week’s Medical Monday. Hospitals work to heal the whole person and part of that includes spiritual care. AR Gould provides...
UMPI selling Houlton Center to nonprofit, but says educational mission will continue
A sale of the Houlton Higher Education Center is in the works, with a local nonprofit, Community Living Association, agreeing to purchase the 15,500-square-foot building for $525,000. The deal is being finalized, and the center's owner, the University of Maine at Presque Isle, expects the sale to be completed by...
Motorcyclist dies after collision with car in Aroostook County
MARS HILL, Maine — A motorcyclist from Easton died Thursday after a collision with a car in Mars Hill. It happened shortly after 1 p.m. on West Ridge Road, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss said in a release Friday. The motorcyclist, 50-year-old Lance Kierstead, was taken...
Tractor Trailer Roll Over on Route 11
MARSARDIS, Maine (WAGM) - A tractor-trailer unit Rolled over on Route 11 on Thursday at approximately 12 pm. A caller reported that the driver of the tractor-trailer, 74-year-old Timothy Folsom of Ludlow, was trapped in the cab and was injured. Maine State Police Police responded to the scene along with...
Sunshine Expected to Start, Showers Return by Early Afternoon
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - Good morning everyone and happy Friday! After a humid start to the daytime yesterday, a few spots picked up on some showers and storms associated with some sunshine in the early afternoon and a backdoor cold front. Because they were more isolated to scattered in nature, rainfall totals did vary within the last 24 hours. Areas in southern Aroostook like Houlton only saw around a tenth of an inch of rain overall while places like Caribou saw right around a half inch.
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