This former Bangor department head is now leading an Aroostook town

This former Bangor department head is now leading an Aroostook town

Aaron Huotari’s first Maine Potato Blossom Festival was in the summer of 1997. He was fresh out of the Army and primed for a more than two-decade-long career in transportation and logistics. “We set up over on the hill coming into town,” Huotari said. “I remember just being really blown away by the volume of people.” His second will be next month. And this time he’ll be front and center. Huotari, a western Maine native who spent the last five ye…