Stories by Staff Aroostook Republican

10 years ago

Annual Fiddler’s Jamboree planned

Local musicians invited to take part in Feb. 7 event

     FORT KENT, Maine — Organizers of the 2016 University of Maine at Fort Kent Fiddlers’ Jamboree have put out a call to area musicians and entertainers to join the festivities.

10 years ago

Troop F report (week of 1-30-2016)

Editor’s Note: An arrest or summons does not constitute a finding of guilt. An individual charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at criminal proceedings.      The Maine State Police Troop F barracks in Houlton investigated the following incidents from Jan. 11-16.

10 years ago

Caribou farm at forefront of community agriculture

     CARIBOU — Community-supported agriculture (CSA) transforms relationships between community members, farmers and farms, and provides a convenient way for locals to enjoy fresh, healthy produce grown by their neighborhood farmers. Contributed photo/Circle B Farms In this file photo, Sam Blackstone of Circle B Farms in Caribou examines some of his crops.  

10 years ago

Dead River Company joins biathlon sponsors

 Biathlon World Cup slated to run from Feb 11-15      PRESQUE ISLE — Dead River Company, a 106-year-old family-owned energy company, has stepped forward to support the Nordic Heritage Center as a local sponsor of the 2016 Biathlon World Cup, hosted by NHC from Feb. 11-14. Contributed photo Mark Wilcox, left, area manager for […]

10 years ago

Cary awards scholarship

Contributed photo Emilee Susi of Caribou, third from left, was recently awarded a $500 scholarship from the Cary Medical Center Auxiliary. The Auxiliary awards the annual scholarship to a student entering a medical-related field. Susi is a 2015 Caribou High School graduate, and a freshman nursing student at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. […]

10 years ago

Winter rescue is featured in new Echoes

     “I’m going to die,” thought David Haggan when his snowmobile went through the ice on Pleasant Lake in Island Falls Jan. 1, 2011. Contributed photo RELEASED this month, with an oil painting of the St. John River by Dolores Dumont of Fort Kent on the cover, the 111th edition of Echoes also contains […]

10 years ago

Aroostook Real Estate adds agents

     FORT KENT, Maine — Tessy Taggett and Jacob Kelly, both of Fort Kent, were recently hired as sales agents at Aroostook Real Estate. Both are also newly licensed sales agents.

10 years ago

Mysteries remain as northern forest fungus gains following

By Anthony Brino Staff Writer      Rene Guay, one of Maine’s first chaga sellers, discovered the birch tree-based fungus kind of by accident.      In 2010, a Canadian customer buying birch bark from his western Maine Spirit of the Woods business asked if he carried chaga, a hard, charcoal colored fungus that grows […]