Stories by Staff Pioneer Times

8 years ago

New ideas for the new year

Those snap, crackle and pop sounds you keep hearing are not from your breakfast cereal, nor are they coming from the burning logs in your fireplace.

8 years ago

What’s Happening

To submit items, please call 207-532-2281, fax to 207-532-2403, mail to PO Box 456, Houlton, ME 04730, or email pioneertimes@nepublish.com by 4 p.m. Friday.   Thursday, Jan. 12 HOULTON: Free workshop Essentials of College Planning, 9 a.m. and again at 1 p.m. at Houlton Higher Education Center, 18 Military St. FMI or to register, call […]

8 years ago

PTO benefit movie

The Houlton Elementary Parent Teacher Organization is joining forces with the Houlton Temple Cinema to help raise funds to benefit students in grades pre-k through second.

8 years ago

Carpenter invites honorary pages

AUGUSTA — Sen. Mike Carpenter, D-Houlton, would like to remind local teachers, parents and students about the Senate honorary page program at the State House in Augusta. The daylong program gives students a unique opportunity to observe and participate in the state’s legislative process. Students from third grade through high school are encouraged to participate.

8 years ago

Unique TV show launches in Maine

BANGOR and PORTLAND — A new first-of-its-kind 30 minute television program began airing Sunday, Jan. 8. The documentary series, “Growing Home,” is the first to tell the stories of U.S. veterans who have transitioned to a life of agriculture and outdoor-related careers. Local viewers can catch the program Sundays at 11 a.m. on Bangor’s WLBZ […]

8 years ago

Report details development ideas

By Joseph Cyr Staff Writer Pioneer Times photo/Joseph Cyr The town of Houlton recently had a booklet created to give residents a better understanding of what each economic development agency for the town. Members of the committee in charge of creating the document include, front from left, Kent Good, Rosa McNally and Jon Gulliver; and […]

8 years ago

Contest down to two finalists

‘Great response’ to the Entrepreneur Challenge By Jen Lynds Staff Writer HOULTON — After kicking off the event in September, the town’s community development director said Tuesday that a selection committee chosen to determine the winner of the Houlton Entrepreneur Challenge had whittled down the list of entrants to just two finalists. “We have had a […]

8 years ago

NECOEM elects Blum president

Dr. Ronald Blum   PATTEN — Dr. Ronald Blum of Patten was elected president of the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NECOEM) at their annual meeting, held in December in Newton, Mass. He will serve a two-year term. Blum is the medical director of Twin Rivers Paper Company in Madawaska, Mt. Heights […]

8 years ago

ACAP continues Helping Hands legacy

Andy Michalka  PRESQUE ISLE — The Aroostook County Action Program, Inc. (ACAP) has been working for several months with the Helping Hands Board of Directors and United Way of Aroostook, a Helping Hands funding source, to ensure emergency services to those in need continue after Dec. 31, when Helping Hands closes. “For many years families […]