115 Years Ago – Nov. 28, 1907
New streetlights — Three new streetlights have been placed on Broadway during the past week, on the corner of Limestone street near the B. & A. crossing, and it is useless to add that they will be appreciated by residents of that section of the village.
Returned from Van Buren — W.B. Shaw returned this Wednesday morning from Van Buren, where he has been to look after the work of putting in steam heat into the Van Buren College.
100 Years Ago – Nov. 30, 1922
A business caller — H.T. Fogg of the Vaughan House was a business caller in Van Buren Thursday last.
Maine, best in the union — A good many people think Maine is the best state in the union, but one Penobscot County family is sure of it. Until lately they had resided in Patten, but a few weeks ago they departed by automobile for Florida, intending to make their home there in the future. However, the Sunny South, they quickly decided, held nothing of attraction for them, and they are already on their way home to the land of summer heat and winter snows.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 27, 1947
Stockholm couple observes 60th wedding anniversary — A service was held at the First Baptist Church here in Stockholm in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nelson’s 60th wedding anniversary. Coffee and refreshments were served after the services.
Local man active on 97th birthday — Gilbert Brown, Limestone Road, Caribou, observed his 97th birthday a day late, on Sunday, Nov. 23, instead of on the 22nd when more of the immediate family was able to be present. Helping him to share two birthday cakes were three of his children, a son and two daughters, seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, one daughter-in-law, three granddaughters-in-law. Brown is still active around the farm home run by his son, John. He does daily chores of caring for three pigs and feeding a small herd of cattle. At least once each week he makes his customary trip to town, where he gets his barbershop shave.
25 Years Ago – Nov. 26, 1997
ACAP honored for 25 years of service — The Aroostook County Action Program celebrated a quarter of a century of community service Thursday night with a gala celebration that joined the past, present and future. ACAP incorporated in November 1971, received federal funding a few months later and began operations June 1, 1972, following the merger of the Central Aroostook Action Program and the St. John Valley Action Council. Today ACAP provides child care, health, housing, employment, training and other programs. It has grown from six programs, 44 employees and a $6,000,000 annual budget in 1972 to 30 programs, 200 employees and a $12 million budget in 1997.
New center — Cary’s Cardiac Rehab Nurse Paula Parent, RN, BSN, CCRN, receives a plaque from Lee Ashjian, Cary’s chief executive officer and Chief Nursing Officer Jackie Devoe, RCN, MS, CNA, for her outstanding personal commitment to the development of the Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation program at Cary Medical Center.
