99 Years Ago – September 3, 1925
Baby beef club work — One of the exhibits at the Presque Isle Fair which attracted a great deal of attention was the young heifer entered in the Boys’ and Girls’ Beef Class. This heifer was a grade Hereford fed by Delmar Brown of Limestone and showed remarkable growth for such a young heifer. Since this baby beef was not started until the current year, the heifer was not put on feed until the first of July and this feeding period was altogether too short to produce a high class beef carcass, but the calf showed remarkable gain in the short time in which it was grained.
50 Years Ago – September 4, 1974
Instructor presented fellowship — Mr. Richard N. Cilley was the recipient of an Educational Professional Development Fellowship and was on a one year leave of absence from Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute. According to Mr. Harold L. Mailman, director of NMVTI, this award was granted by the Maine State Board of Education through a federal appropriation.
New basketball coach — The new basketball coach at Presque Isle High School was Bob Beaulieu, the former coach and athletic director at Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute in Presque Isle. He replaced the former Wildcat mentor, Sterling LeBlanc, who accepted a coaching berth at Rockland. Beaulieu was well known for his athletic ability. He set a number of athletic records while attending the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where he still held the mark of 21.7 points per basketball game established in the 1965-66 campaign. Beaulieu still maintained his position as athletic director at NMVTI. Over the last few years, he had had fine success with his NMVTI hoop teams. The previous year’s club made the Maine Small College Conference playoffs, and in the past season, his basketball team finished second in the Maine State Tech Series.
Mars Hill beat Katahdin in soccer — In a very close and exciting soccer game played Tuesday afternoon, August 27, at Mars Hill, Central Aroostook High School upset the always strong Katahdin High outfit 1 to 0. Their Aroostook League division B record at one win and one defeat. The only score of the game came in the third period when Harley York scored with an assist from Tim Griffin. Eighteen shots were thrown at Mars Hill goalie, Terry Some, while Ken Tarr in the nets for Katahdin had to stop 20 shots.
25 Years Ago – September 8, 1999
Berry and Edgecom won again — Shawn Berry of Presque Isle and Angela Edgecomb of Monticello continued their dominance of the Aroostook County road racing circuit by picking up overall victories at the 26th annual Caribou Labor Day Road Race. A total of 65 runners and walkers participated in the event, held in warm temperatures on a five-mile course which began and ended at the high school. Berry’s time of 27:47 was 37 seconds faster than runner-up Jeff Alden of Caribou, whose finishing time was 28:24. On the women’s side, Edgecomb’s 33:29 clocking held off Tina Michaud of Presque Isle, who came across nine seconds later at 33:38.
Broccoli gleaning helping food bank — The third annual broccoli-gleaning project, cosponsored by the Good Shepherd Food-Bank and Catholic Charities Maine, took place in Aroostook County. With the broccoli fields being donated by the H. Smith Packing Company, an unlimited number of volunteers were needed to pick as much broccoli as possible to supply hundreds of nonprofit food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens from Aroostook to York Counties, feeding thousands of low-income people in Maine. Trophy — Dirk Duncan accepted a trophy from Northern Maine Fair Association President Roger Hoffses for winning the most races at the Northern Maine Fair. Duncan, who raised and raced standard-bred horses for harness racing, had 15 wins during the fair.
