By Paul Bagnall, The Star-Herald Staff
PRESQUE ISLE More than 70 fire departments turned out for the 59th annual Maine State Federation of Firefighters Convention that featured a Saturday parade down Main Street in Presque Isle.
Around 65 different fire trucks drove down the parade line with sirens and horns blaring to the excited crowds.
By Paul Bagnell, The Star-Herald Staff
FORT FAIRFIELD Locals gathered under the humid open tent for the first-ever Potato Dish in the County cooking contest at the Maine Potato Blossom Festival.
The cooking competition was split into two parts with three teams of career technical chefs cooking their potato-themed dishes from ingredients collected from local farms around Aroostook County.
By Paul Bagnell, The Star-Herald Staff
Maine Public Broadcasting Corp. has been working for more than a year to expand the emergency alert system into more rural areas in Maine.