115 Years Ago – Oct. 2, 1901
Quite a number — It is said that 175 lbs. of fish were caught at Square Lake, Sunday. Quite a record for one day.
Two new routes — Two new rural delivery routes started Oct. 1, making five routes now running out of Caribou.
75 Years Ago – Oct. 2, 1941
Resigns from post — Geo. Trusty has resigned his position in the Caribou post office and left last week for Philadelphia where he will attend the University of Pennsylvania.
Large potato —A 3-pound, 3-ounce spud raised on the farm of Phillip Laffaty, heads the list of large tubers entered in the M.D. McGrath annual potato sweepstakes. Other large entries are Edmund F. Anderson, 3 lbs; Archie Roberts, 2 lbs., 4 ounces; Lyman K. Knox, Jr., 2 lbs, 13 ounces; Sterling Wilcox and William Drost each with 2 lbs, 8 ounces.
50 Years Ago – Oct. 9, 1966
Burden new junior high school principal — The appointment of Fred Burden to the principalship of the Caribou Junior High School was announced Tuesday by Superintendent of Schools Richard F. Crocker, Jr. Burden will replace Stewart Thurston, who, after holding the junior high school position for only a few weeks has returned, at his own request, to his former position of assistant principal at the senior high school. Ralph Lamont, formerly of Presque Isle HS, has been secured as a full-time guidance director at the high school as well.
Spacious Mill Outlet store opens — Aroostook’s newest and largest discount department store, located in the Caribou Shopping Center on the Access Highway, was formally opened this morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by officials of the company. The Mill Outlet Store, with 24,000 square feet of shopping space, opened its doors to the public after a final, hectic week of stocking and last-minute price preparations. A Maine-owned and -operated concern, the Mill Outlet chain prides itself on employing as many local people as possible. It features everything for the home and family under one roof.
25 Years Ago – Oct. 2, 1991
Protest treatment project — The proposed Sinclair Sanitary District water pollution treatment project has run into some opposition from a group at Cross Lake. The Cross Lake Camp Owners Association (CLCA) is concerned about the effect the sewer project could have on local drinking water. The proposed project being considered would pipe treated sewage from Sinclair village in T17 R4 into a peat bog in T17, R5 or Guerrette.
News of our own — The Aroostook Republican, now in its 111th year, commissioned an independent market research firm to survey readers’ views of what they considered important in their local newspaper. Upwards of 1,000 readers responded to the survey. Some of the results include that 79.5 percent of readers live in Caribou with another 13 percent coming from Limestone, Stockholm and New Sweden. 40 percent of the readers are between 30 and 44, with another swell coming for the 55 to 59 age group. The results were so high above the national average that the survey company ran the results through a second time to make sure.
