County Candids

Over a dozen turkeys decided to meet up on the Lombard Road in Caribou on Dec. 15.

Houlton’s town Christmas Tree in Market Square illuminates the downtown Saturday evening.

The Gateway Crossing footbridge in Houlton lights up a cold winter night.

Turkeys take a casual stroll down the Carson Road in Woodland on Wednesday morning following a storm that dropped about four inches of snow in central Aroostook.

Prior to 1931, before Route 1 between Houlton and Presque Isle was plowed during the winters, children would hop on horse-drawn “school buses,”

A steady snowfall covered Main Street in Presque Isle on late Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 27, during a winter storm that made driving hazardous for many folks across the state.

The head of Caribou’s Caribou statue appears to be checking out a welcome sign on a clear, cold afternoon Nov. 23 in front of City Hall.

Allie Worthley of Houlton spent Wednesday afternoon building a snowman as wet, sticky snow fell in the Shiretown.

An intricate wasps’ nest hangs from a tree in Presque Isle on Oct. 16.

A squirrel sits up to catch some sun recently in a Presque Isle garden.