The money raised from the annual holiday event turns into life-saving equipment for the hospital, equipment for first responders, nonprofit area health care clinics and safety equipment for youth sports teams.
More than 150 participants recently converged on the Legacy Ranch for Aroostook Agency on Aging’s annual business meeting and a celebration of the organization’s 50-year history.
The town of Houlton’s proposed $14.8 million 2024 budget increased $2.5 million over last year and includes significant increases for both the police department and the airport.
The Aroostook County grand jury handed up 72 indictments for September, including a Bangor resident who allegedly shot a Wallagrass man.
The whole idea behind the shop small movement was to draw people into downtowns to support local shop owners for holiday shopping, especially when shoppers were cramming malls and box stores with after Thanksgiving Black Friday deals.
Bill Higgins, former co-owner of Hogan Tire in Houlton and a 44-year veteran in the tire industry, was recently honored at a reception held at the Lakeside Restaurant in New Limerick on the occasion of his retirement.
25 Years Ago – December 2, 1998
Littleton man named ‘Farmer of the Year’ – The Maine Potato Board will honor two industry leaders at its annual meeting in January. Robert Bartlett of Littleton has been named 1998 Farm of the year, while Kendall Shaw of Fort Fairfield is the 1998 Young Farmer of the Year.
As we brace ourselves for the holiday season and the cold winter months, the phone does not stop ringing. There are people wanting to surrender their pets, strays being picked up and brought to the sanctuary, kittens being pulled out of Dumpsters, people moving and leaving their pets behind.
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Graduates of Maine’s only college training program for operators of mechanized logging and forest trucking equipment were recognized Nov. 9 at the site where they have spent recent weeks completing the final, trucking stage of the program after months harvesting timber using sophisticated state-of-the-art machines like those they will encounter in the logging industry.
