Mike Willette

Over the last month, the Northern Maine Regional Airport in Presque has been awarded two separate grants which will assist in the development of a new hangar complex.

Amid calls for his resignation, Republican state senator Michael Willette of Aroostook County has apologized for suggesting that President Barack Obama is related to members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a terrorist organization responsible for the murders and beheadings of journalists, aid workers and other civilians in the middle east.