Contributed photo Kiwanis Lieutenant Governor Sue Watson visited the Caribou Kiwanis Club on Nov. 1 to install officers for the coming year. From left are, in back, Mike Tardif, treasurer; Fred Schieber, president-elect; Bill Francis, president; and Jeff Franklin, immediate past president. Front row, Kelly Basley, board member; Ann Lin, secretary; Kathy Schieber, board member; […]
Contributed photo Kim Wilcox of Mapleton was awarded the 2016 Reuben and Annette Cote Family Memorial Scholarship of $750 from the Jefferson Cary Foundation. At the presentation are, from left, Pam Scheppele, Jefferson Cary Foundation president, and Mary Harrigan, executive director; Wilcox; and Shanin Cote, Cary occupational therapist and granddaughter of Reuben and Annette Cote. […]
By Don Eno SJVT/FhF Staff Writer ST. AGATHA — Military veterans driving for a St. John Valley trucking company now have another reason to take pride while cruising in their big rigs on the nation’s highways. Staff photo/Don Eno Andrew Bugbee, of Fort Fairfield, is one of several truck drivers with St. Agatha-based […]
PRESQUE ISLE — At its recent November meeting, the Central Aroostook Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors elected 10 new members. Their terms will run January 2017 to December 2019.
Local company buys Bangor-based Farrington Financial Group PRESQUE ISLE and BANGOR — The Presque Isle-based financial services firm of Thompson-Hamel LLC, which was originally founded in 1962, has announced it has reached an agreement to purchase the Bangor-based Farrington Financial Group. Contributed photo Thompson-Hamel LLC of Presque Isle have announced they will acquire […]
I drove into the parking lot of my office this morning, feeling just about as desolate and alone as the two autumn stained trees before me. These earthy golden red trees would soon shed their garments and reluctantly succumb to the browns and grays of November. There was no turning back now, for winter was pounding on the door and promising to smother us in white.
I looked down at my sneaker clad feet and grieved for my flowery sandals, packed away in a red Christmas tote that rested upstairs on the linoleum floor of one of our guest rooms. There were no bluebirds or puffy, happy clouds swirling about my head on this day; not a one.
Muted November grays at this writing are awaiting their mantle of white.
Last time I wrote about finding records of your ancestors’ service in the Colonial and Revolutionary wars. In this column we’ll examine the conflicts of the 19th century: the War of 1812, Mexican-American, Civil, and the Spanish-American Wars.
To the editor:
I understand the appeal of Populism; I am experiencing the pain and loss, the desperation and fear that accompanies late middle age unemployment. I drive by the empty mills and factories in Waterville, Dexter, Pittsfield, Skowhegan, Millinocket and Bucksport. I walk down the Main Streets of dying towns in Washington, Somerset, Waldo, and Aroostook counties, where the good days are now decades behind us. I live in rural America, where the schools are closing from lack of students, where deaths outnumber births, and depression is driving many to seek narcotic oblivion.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — This month, the Northern Maine Chamber Society Orchestra (NMCSO) will kick off the 2016 holiday season in Aroostook County with a performance on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. in Presque Isle.
