MILLINOCKET, Maine — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis will visit Millinocket on Thursday to discuss environmentalist Roxanne Quimby‘s proposal to turn 70,000 acres she owns into a national park, officials said Tuesday. Town Manager Eugene Conlogue described the visit as “a ...

MILLINOCKET, Maine — It looks now as if a recruiter’s unfulfilled promises will leave the Millinocket School Department’s new international program with six high school-age Chinese students instead of 60, Superintendent Kenneth Smith said Thursday. “We are not going to get the 60 that the one guy promised us repeatedly ...

MILLINOCKET, Maine ― Patrick Mattimore is no tool for Communist propaganda. Reacting to articles on the websites of The Atlantic magazine and Bangor Daily News, the New York-born and Connecticut-raised former assistant district attorney and high school teacher stood by his opinions of Stearns High School as a run-of-the-mill educational institution. ...

MILLINOCKET, Maine ― A national Chinese newspaper set off a cold war of words among town leaders and a national U.S. magazine this week by deriding Stearns High School and calling Millinocket a place where “the biggest kick for kids is hanging out in a supermarket parking lot.” In a ...