Stories by Staff Aroostook Republican

10 years ago

Lease signing moves PI House of Comfort closer

     BREWER — Officials from VNA Home Health Hospice and the Aroostook House of Comfort announced Friday the formal signing of the lease for Aroostook County’s first freestanding hospice house. Contributed photo Colleen Hilton, RN, president and CEO of VNA Home Health Hospice and Hospice of Aroostook, Richard Duncan, chairman of the Aroostook Hospice […]

10 years ago

Van Buren grower on national spud board

  Jay LaJoie’s family recognized as 2010 Potato Board Farm Family of the Year      VAN BUREN — Jay LaJoie of Van Buren was elected to the Potatoes USA Executive Committee recently at the organization’s 44th annual meeting.

10 years ago

Bridge over troubled waters

To the editor:

     It’s early dawn. I’ve walked to the bridge on the outskirts of town.

10 years ago

The right to know new Supreme Court nominee

     I strongly believe the Senate has a Constitutional obligation to consider nominations to the Supreme Court, and that is a responsibility I take very seriously. As part of my effort to fulfill that duty, I met with the President’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in my office on Wednesday, April 13th.

10 years ago

Water classification protection for waterways

     Why won’t the government of New Brunswick complete the Watershed Classification process? The New Brunswick process is almost identical with the classification system used in Maine. The system used in Maine would allow NB to effectively co-manage the shared trans-boundary watersheds in the St. Croix and the St. John river basins.

10 years ago

What’s Happening (week of 4-20-16)

Wednesday, April 20 FORT FAIRFIELD: Regular meeting of the Housing Authority of Fort Fairfield, 7 a.m., Hillcrest Estates conference room. FORT KENT: County Commissioners meeting, 5:30 p.m., first-floor conference room in the Registry of Deeds building. LIMESTONE: Building Body Stability exercise class for seniors, 10-11 a.m. at the Robert A. Frost Memorial Library. Teacher: Julie […]

10 years ago

Camp Invention returns to UMPI

Slated for the week of Aug. 1, 2016 for students entering grades 1-6

     PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Camp Invention, the nation’s premier summer enrichment day camp program, supported by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a product of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, will return this summer to the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

10 years ago

McCrossin inducted into honor society

     BATON ROUGE, La. — Alexis McCrossin of Caribou, Maine, was recently initiated into the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.