Stories by Staff Star Herald

8 years ago

Cochran wins geography bee

Jenna Cochran, a sixth-grade student at Easton Elementary School, won the school competition of the National Geographic Bee held Jan. 5 and a chance at a $50,000 college scholarship.

8 years ago

Plants topic of library talk

 MARS HILL NEWS

Linda Trickey of the University of Maine will be speaking at the Walter T. A. Hansen Memorial Library on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. She will be covering the basic care and health benefits of house plants.

8 years ago

Grant funds benefit tribes

U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced Jan. 5 that the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, along with the Penobscot Indian Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe, received a total of $807,217 through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG).

8 years ago

All-Aroostook this weekend

ASHLAND — The All-Aroostook Instrumental Music Festival will be held at the Ashland District School this Friday and Saturday, Jan. 13 and 14.

8 years ago

County churches ‘sole’ searching to fight hunger

Collection boxes inside 19 Aroostook County churches, as well as St. Mary of Lourdes Church in Lincoln, are filling up with new and gently used shoes generously donated by parishioners and community members.

8 years ago

ACAP available to help with enrollment

The Aroostook County Action Program (ACAP) still has appointments available for the 2017 open enrollment for Marketplace insurance; however, the deadline is quickly approaching.

8 years ago

United Way delivers its 60,000th book

PRESQUE ISLE — The United Way of Aroostook celebrated a milestone the first week of December when it marked 60,000 books delivered to preschool-aged children in Aroostook County through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

8 years ago

Craig joins Red Cross directors

CARIBOU — The American Red Cross in Maine announced on Jan. 3 the addition of Vilma Craig of Ashland to the organization’s Aroostook County Advisory Board of Directors.

8 years ago

McCrum continues with AAW in 2017

RALEIGH, N.C. — American Agri-Women ( AAW) elected officers and launched its educational campaign AgDay365 at its annual convention, held in November in Raleigh, N.C.

8 years ago

NVM plans class to improve money skills

PRESQUE ISLE — New Ventures Maine will offer a money management class beginning Thursday, Jan. 12, meeting on Thursdays through Feb. 2 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the University of Maine at Presque Isle.