CARIBOU, Maine — Representatives of the Caribou Secession Committee shook hands with County Commissioners at their March 18 meeting in Caribou.
According to Secession Committee spokesperson Paul Camping, the committee wants to lay the groundwork with County Commissioners for any future partnerships that may arise.
CARIBOU, Maine — Eighth-grader Kaylee Trombley is the proud owner of a new iPad thanks to her teachers in the Caribou Life Skills Program at the Caribou Middle School.
Trombley has autism, which means social situations can be tricky, but according to special education teacher, Penny Jackson, Trombley is more at ease when she can play on her new iPad.
WOODLAND, Maine — The Woodland selectpeople met with townspeople on March 17 for a town meeting at the Woodland school.
Residents of Woodland voted on a series of articles outlined in the 2015 annual report for the town of Woodland. Harold Tardy was the moderator and 29 registered voters were there along with a few non-residents.
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As a young girl growing up in northern Maine, the turmoil in the South during the 1960s seemed a world away to me. Our schools focused mainly on earlier periods of American history.
As our veterans return home from the Middle East and other conflicts across the globe, cities, towns, churches, civic organizations and families have found many ways to honor those who have heroically served our nation.
To the editor:
I write to you as an Indian — or as whites know us, a so-called Maliseet Indian. This is in response to your article on ancestors which appeared in the Aroostook Republican on March 4, 2015. I thought that you might be interested in my story and the story of my ancestors.
100 Years Ago-March 18, 1915
Gold at Green’s —An advertisement for the March 19 opening of the new Green’s Clothing Store in Caribou read: “On Saturday, we will have our formal opening, and commencing at 1:30 p.m. sharp, we will give away $2.50 in gold with every purchase of $10 or over, on that day only. With every purchase of a boy’s suit, we will make the boy a present of a brand new dollar bill.”
Contributed photo by David Knorr State Representative Anthony J. Edgecomb (R-Fort Fairfield) welcomed John Sjostedt, at right, to the State House on March 9. Sjostedt, chair of the RSU 39 Board of Education, along with school board vice chair Kent Forbes of Caribou, were in Augusta to monitor the joint proceedings of the Appropriations and […]
Hannaford Supermarkets recently donated $19,000 in food to Good Shepherd Food Bank, as part of a hunger-relief campaign that produced more than $1 million in product and cash donations across five Northeast states, including $240,000 in Maine.
