Nearly a year after St. Paul officials said they planned to replace balky accessibility elevators with ramps at the Como Conservatory's Sunken Garden, an out of order sign showed access remains limited. The reason for the delay? Historic preservation officials spent the past several months reviewing design concepts. The state approved those concepts in March and work on the ramps now is .
It will be quite an adventure for Madawaska’s Dennis Lavoie next week. On Monday he will compete in his second Boston Marathon. Lavoie said he will take what he learned last year into this years race.
The staff from Bangor Daily News’ four Aroostook and one Piscataquis county weeklies took home several writing, photography and design awards from the Maine Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest held in Bar Harbor on Oct. 22.
Isabelle Lavoie of Madawaska, the daughter of Dennis Lavoie and Dianne Morneault, a senior at Madawaska Middle/High School, has been selected to receive the 2022 Maine Principal