Caribou city council voted on Dec. 14 to approve a new $24,000 sound system to improve audio and video quality at meetings and enable sessions to be broadcast remotely when needed.
Caribou City Councilors formally recognized outgoing planning board member Robert White as well as city councilors Hugh Kirkpatrick and Nicole Cote during a Dec. 14 meeting.
Former Caribou Mayor Mark Goughan, who was re-elected in November and resigned later that month, will be returning for his new term in January, according to Deputy Mayor Thomas Ayer.
Ethan Holdsworth, a Caribou High School senior, was sitting in his living room when he learned the Maine Soccer Coaches Association named him Class B Boys Player of the Year.
New Sweden maintained its long-standing tradition of celebrating Santa Lucia Day this year, although the festivities looked much different amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Limestone celebrated its annual light parade on Saturday, Dec. 12, with this year’s theme being “A Small Town Christmas.”
A petition to recall Caribou City Councilor Doug Morrell fell short by just 53 signatures of the total 1,112 required to submit the document.
The RSU 39 (Caribou and Stockholm) school district will remain in the red, or remote learning, model until Jan. 4.
Northern Light A.R. Gould Hospital plans to open a walk-in clinic in Caribou to accommodate residents amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a correspondence between the hospital and state Department of Health and Human Services on the Maine.gov website.
Caribou Police arrested two Washburn residents on various drug charges at roughly 3 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5, according to a press release from Caribou Police Chief Michael Gahagan issued on Dec. 9.
