115 Years Ago – Dec. 11, 1901
Salmon — Quite a few landlocked salmon fingerlings from the Caribou hatchery have been placed in different waters during the past two weeks. Some 5,200 were released in Nickerson lake, 3,400 in Drew’s lake, 3,000 in Spider lake and 3,000 in Munsungan lake.
100 Years Ago – Dec. 14, 1916
Gift to the public — Caribou High School will give a free Christmas gift to the Caribou public on Friday, Dec. 22 by showing several reels of pictures at the high school room. These shows will be given at 2, 3 and 4 o’clock. The pictures will be clean, light and adapted to children of tender age.
Almanac — W.J. Ryan, the blind almanac man, was in Caribou Wednesday selling the Maine Farmer’s Almanac. This is Ryan’s 36th consecutive year during which he has visited Aroostook.
75 Years Ago – Dec. 11, 1941
To open evenings — Caribou merchants have announced plans to keep their stores open each evening, beginning Monday night, Dec. 15, through until Christmas. The move is made, as has been done in past years, to offer a convenience for holiday shoppers.
Currier heads Chamber — Norman Currier was elected president of the Caribou Chamber of Commerce at their annual meeting held Wednesday night and will succeed M.D. McGrath, president of the organization for two years. Business matters discussed included the appointment of the organization’s president to act as coordinator with the Local Defense Committee.
50 Years Ago – Dec. 14, 1966
Formally opened — Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the administrative wing of the new Caribou High School Sunday afternoon, well over 2,500 visitors trooped through the hallways to inspect the facility. The building was officially accepted from the contractors by the Caribou School Building Committee when Jack Burlock of General Supply Corporation presented the keys to Nathan O Currier, chairman, in the lobby well decorated with baskets of flowers.
Cash gifts — Regular employees of the Birds Eye vegetable processing plant in Caribou received cash Christmas gifts totaling $46,000 this week. The gifts had been authorized by the Board of Directors of General Foods Corporation.
25 Years Ago – Dec. 11, 1991
Nuclear waste sites proposed — Maine’s Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority has released a list of 29 potential nuclear waste sites that includes 11 areas in Aroostook County. In Aroostook, the state authority will study a site in Chapman, three in Garfield Plantation, sites in Masardis and Obow, three sites in Township 10, Range 6, among others. Preference ratings will score sites on such things as road access and the support of community to host a radioactive waste site.
