Caribou Council approves CIP
By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
The Caribou City Council met Feb. 22 for a regular meeting and public hearing regarding the 2010 Capital Improvements program. Steve Buck, Caribou city manger, presented a PowerPoint explanation of the capital improvements program which represented each cost center (city departments), the initial department requests, recommendations by the CIP committee and the final city council recommendations.
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Pelletier shines brightest in Northern Star competition
By Natalie Bazinet
Staff Writer
CARIBOU — She may be too young to attend a PG-13 movie without parental supervision, but 12-year-old Isabelle Pelletier of St. Jacques, N.B. proved to an audience of over 800 that age is not at all indicative of talent; the girl can sing. Pelletier performed three times during the first ever Northern Star international competition, presented by the United Way of Aroostook County.
 Aroostook Republican photo/Natalie Bazinet
Isabelle Pelletier, 12, of St. Jacques, N.B. didn’t just perform during the Northern Star Competition last Sunday, she knocked the audience off of their hypothetical feet and had the judges giving her ...
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Student authors put work to test
By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
Members of the Caribou High School Drama Club have selected an original play by created by two of its members for the regional high school drama competition at Stearns High School in Millinocket this weekend. “Pulling the Strings of Courtship,” authored by Christine Kashian and Robbie Kiehn, will preview tomorrow, March 4, at the Caribou Performing Arts Center prior to the regional festival.
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Limestone looking for best citizens
By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
Officials with the Greater Limestone Chamber of Commerce are currently seeking 2009 Citizen of the Year nominations. This award is presented each year to a resident (or non-resident) who has volunteered in the Greater Limestone area.
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RSU 39 public hearing
By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
The Eastern Aroostook RSU 39 Board of Education will be holding a public hearing tonight beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the superintendent’s building on South Main Street in Caribou. This hearing will take place prior to the regular RSU 39 board meeting and offers a chance for area farmers, parents and students to voice their concerns or thoughts regarding the annual harvest recess. This hearing is open to all area residents who are involved in the potato harvest in some manner.
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Major Loring remembered in book
The namesake of the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone hasn’t been forgotten.
Major Charles Joseph Loring, Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient who deliberately crashed his damaged aircraft into enemy gun emplacements near Sniper Ridge in Korea, is just one of 524 military heroes profiled in a recently-published book, “In Their Honor: The Men Behind the Names of Our Military Installations.”
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