The New Sweden School board held their regular monthly meeting on Thursday to discuss a number of agenda items, including a newly proposed budget development timeline for 2015-16, which was drafted by the superintendent’s office.
NEW SWEDEN, Maine — Did you know stacking and un-stacking plastic cups is an energizing, brain-activating and world-record setting activity? The students at the New Sweden Consolidated School learned how fun and energizing this activity could be when they took part in Guiness World Records Day on Nov. 13, 2014.
The Limestone Chamber of Commerce is hosting their annual Holiday Light Parade on Saturday, Nov. 29 starting at 6 p.m.
The Limestone Selectpeople met on Wednesday, Nov. 19 for their regular town meeting.
The board began by announcing the resignation dates of both Town Manager Donna Bernier and Office Clerk Vicki Page. Page’s resignation date was Nov. 21, while Bernier is set to step down on Dec. 19. The town held a special luncheon for Page on Thursday, which was held at the town office.
While a number of organizations amp up efforts to help their neighbors around the holidays, Catholic Charities is not one of them.
Around this time of the year, people call Dixie Shaw, director of hunger and relief services at Catholic Charities in Caribou, to find out what special programs the organization will be doing for the holidays.
CARIBOU, Maine — Using the state’s dangerous building statute, Caribou’s City Council enacted clean up guidelines for the former Birds Eye site in August and property owner Steven R. Nasiff of the Massachusetts-based Nasiff Land LLC was ordered to remove the dilapidated structures and remediate environmental concerns.
CARIBOU, Maine — Outlining the how’s and why’s of Caribou’s vision to being “THE all season community to work, play, grow in and call home” rests in its newly adopted Comprehensive Plan, approved on Monday by the planning board and city council.
Contributed photo The Stockholm Legion Auxiliary recently held their local 7th District meeting at the Stockholm Legion, Post 136. Three members who attended the meeting are, from left, Debra Marr, department vice president of the American Legion Auxiliary, Kathy Robinson, department district vice president and Nancy Ronco, department president.
The following births were recently announced at Cary Medical Center:
Thompson – A boy, Morgan Pierce Thompson born to Nadia and Matthew Thompson of Caswell on Oct. 15, 2014.
Thompson – A boy, Henry Jesse Thompson born to Nadia and Matthew Thompson of Caswell on Oct. 15, 2014.
I have noticed, in my years as a meteorologist, that when a winter storm is in the forecast, folks tend to over-focus on how much is expected, while not fully considering the storm’s other hazards, which include possible white-outs, dangerous cold, and getting stuck without a winter survival kit!
