Contributed photo Kinda Hall with her husband Travis and son Colten. HOULTON — The Pregnancy Care Center of Houlton has announced that Kinda Hall of Hodgdon is the new Care Center Director. Hall, originally from South Shore, Ky., recently moved to the area from Texas with her husband, Travis, and son, Colton. Previously employed […]
CARIBOU — A local business development organization cited successes in forestry and manufacturing and the continuing need to grow the next generation’s workforce as key take-aways from 2016. According to Aroostook Partnership President Robert Dorsey, last year was a busy year, with the partnership’s top priorities being promoting local job awareness, expanding collaborations between business […]
By Joshua Archer Star-Herald Contributing Writer Staff photo/Joshua Archer During a Dec. 21 press conference at NMCC for education and business leaders, representatives of Aroostook Aspirations Initiative presented a report by Plimpton Research on “Addressing Barriers to Economic Development in Aroostook County.” The group’s mission, according to Executive Director Kristen Wells, left, is to help […]
Nicole Duplessis PRESQUE ISLE — Aroostook Aspirations Initiative (AAI) recently hired Nicole Duplessis as development and communications assistant. A 2012 graduate of Van Buren District Secondary School, Duplessis received her bachelor of science in mass communications degree from Husson University’s New England School of Communications. Most recently, she worked as a reporter at WAGM-TV, […]
On Dec. 21, the Sherman Area Seniors had their meeting.
The prayer and pledge to the flag were said, then the group sat down for a potluck lunch. The food was reported to be wonderful and a good time was had by all.
To the editor:
Each year, the dawn of a new year inspires us to reflect on the blessings and graces of the past twelve months and to look ahead with the good intentions of being a better person.
In that spirit, a worthy focus of our efforts in 2017 would be to remember the lessons learned during the recently concluded Jubilee Year of Mercy.
To the editor:
As a proud employee of ACAP, and an active participant of the Cereal Tree Project, it warmed my heart to see the over 1,100 tickets put into our basket by the community, cementing the amazing donation from Scott Carlin and Star City IGA of 250 Cereal Boxes to help some of our Aroostook families. Every child enrolled in an ACAP early care and education program brought home a box of cereal before the holiday break.
To the editor:
When I was a boy in the 1950s in St. Agatha, there were 70 or more small farms up Flat Mountain (Montaigne Platte) and even more in the surrounding community. Today there are none. They are all gone! The kids from Flat Mountain alone used to fill up most of our schools. What happened?
Most likely we can blame technology for that one. Prior to 1900 and up to after World War I, most farms were small, 100 +/- acres. Most of the work was labor intensive, self-sustaining, horses and oxen being used for the harder work of planting and clearing land.
100 Years Ago – Jan. 3, 1917
New ownership — Fred N. Vose and James Hannigan consummated a business deal Monday that gives them the ownership of the planing and hardwood mill of Frank McElwee on Bangor St.
The Chinese ironically declare: “May you live in interesting times.” I don’t know about you, but I certainly feel a sense of personal and collective necessity as we bid farewell to 2016. But first … Christmas.
