Group hails forestry success, youth potential 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.
PRESQUE ISLE — The trustees of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation (HEAF) have awarded a $1000 scholarship to a Northern Maine Community College business administration major.
PRESQUE ISLE — Aroostook Aspirations Initiative (AAI) recently hired Nicole Duplessis as development and communications assistant.
By Joshua ArcherSpecial to the Star-Herald Another exciting year for Star City businesses. Here are some highlights of what happened during the second half of 2016.
BANGOR — Paul Cary, a Caribou High School graduate, has joined Mortgage Network Inc., one of the largest independent mortgage lenders in the eastern U.S., as a loan officer in the company’s Bangor branch office.
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.
HOULTON — The Pregnancy Care Center of Houlton has announced that Kinda Hall of Hodgdon is the new Care Center Director.
The community library will resume its regular schedule this week. All after-school activities that it hosts will now be held at Easton Elementary School.
The Greater Ashland Area Book Club became a highlight of the Christmas season when they re-created the land of Narnia for the children and adults in Ashland. Nearly 100 children and adults attended the two-day event.
102 Years Ago – Jan. 7, 1915
Insurance agency — Arthur C. Perry Co. had been organized at Presque Isle for the purpose of conducting the business of an insurance agency or agencies, including fire, casualty, marine, fidelity and guaranteed bond business, with a capital stock of $50,000.
