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children sledding at Camden’s Harbor Park
Travel & Outdoors

The Best Sledding Hills in Every Maine County

We canvassed sledders across the state to point you to a few superb slopes, whether you’re chaperoning the kids or grandkids or sneaking in a few runs yourself.
Our Towns

The St. John Valley is Maine’s Last French-Speaking Bastion, But For How Long?

In the far northern stronghold of Acadian culture, it’s getting rarer to hear “Valley French,” once more common than English. What’s at stake if it’s lost?
Dean's Motor Lodge dining room
Food & Drink

The Restaurateurs Who Traded a Coastal Lobster Shack for an Aroostook Roadhouse

For Dawn Bernier, taking over Dean’s Motor Lodge has been both heart-wrenching and heartwarming.
Photography

The Winter Barns of Aroostook County

When snow blankets a rolling field in far northern Maine, a weathered barn is the locus of the landscape.
Aroostook County beer made with local hops and barley
Food & Drink

On Tap in the County? Truly Local Beers

Aroostook hop growers, maltsters, and brewers are teaming up on homegrown suds.
Russell Currier's Aroostook County ski guide
Travel & Outdoors

Russell Currier’s Aroostook Skiing Guide

The Olympic biathlete comes home — and hits the trails.
Melissa Crowe
Arts & Leisure

Melissa Crowe’s Aroostook Upbringing Inspires Her Award-Winning New Poetry Collection

“Every time I write about the people I grew up around, I’m writing a love poem.”
Earlier this winter, a contingent of the Northern Maine Ice Busters got some practice in with a small carousel on Aroostook County’s Long Lake.
Our Towns

In Aroostook County, Another Maine Ice Disk (This One With an Outboard)

In northern Maine, ice carousels are big, cold, record-setting attractions.
Allagash View Farms the first Maine farm to go big on haskap berries
Food & Drink

Are Haskap Berries the Next Big Aroostook County Crop?

The hardy little berry resembles an oversize, oblong blueberry, and it tastes like a blueberry-raspberry hybrid.
Dr. Marie Battiste's Favorite Maine Place, Nickerson Lake
Our Towns

Dr. Marie Battiste’s Favorite Maine Place

Before she was a widely-traveled leader in indigenous education, Marie Battiste was an Aroostook County girl.
The Fort Kent Blockhouse, the only remaining Aroostook War fortification
History

Maine Gets Its Northern Crown

How a quasi-war with Canada made our state what it is today — and helped secure a lasting peace at the border.
Our Towns

“There’s Just Something Here That Gives Us This Sense of Identity.”

What are Aroostook County values, and why should they matter to the rest of us? We asked Kathryn Olmstead, a founding editor of Echoes magazine, who’s spent her career chronicling what sets the County apart.
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