8 years ago
Duplessis joins Aroostook Aspirations
PRESQUE ISLE — Aroostook Aspirations Initiative (AAI) recently hired Nicole Duplessis as development and communications assistant.
Stories by Staff Aroostook Republican
8 years ago
ACAP will continue Helping Hands legacy
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.
8 years ago
2016: A Year in Review: Part 2
YEAR IN REVIEW: BUSINESS July The Loring Job Corps Center in Limestone conducted an awards ceremony to honor five of its longtime dedicated staff who have served at the center since its opening 20 years ago. The employees are Leo Labbe, Bab Cote, Richard Roy, Herman Gaskins and Joe Pinette. Contributed photo Joan […]
8 years ago
Act will assess strength of U.S. northern border
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced Dec. 15 that the president has signed the Northern Border Security Review Act, a bipartisan bill to assess and strengthen American security at the northern border, into law.
8 years ago
The simple things in life
To the editor:
God bless Donald Trump. Please allow me to explain.
8 years ago
A message for the New Year
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.
8 years ago
Where have all the farms gone?
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?
8 years ago
A totally different December!
As you can tell by now, I sure do like my climate stats, and in my travels, I’ve found that others like them too! So let me give you two to start things off.
8 years ago
The cereal tree and the gift of givingThe cereal tree and the gift of giving
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.
8 years ago
Countering Boko Haram
By U.S. Sen. Susan M. Collins
(R-Maine)
In 2014, the terrorist group Boko Haram shocked the world by kidnapping 276 Nigerian schoolgirls, sending them into lives of sexual slavery and forced “marriages.” That horrific act was part of a nearly decade-long campaign of brutal violence by the extremist organization against the people of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger in West and Central Africa.
