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This Caribou street festival has been bringing crowds downtown for over a decade
“Thursdays on Sweden,” Caribou’s annual biweekly summer street fair, is now in full swing and is continuing to draw large crowds more than a decade after it launched. Now in its 13th year, the event organized by the Caribou Parks and Recreation Department includes live music, food and craft vendors, and a beer garden in Caribou’s downtown.
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Former logger’s art ushers a lumbermen’s museum into a new historical era
A series of eight donated watercolors will take one of Maine’s most popular lumber museums into a new era. “In order to grow we need to branch out and we are testing the waters,” said Dottie Tucker, the Patten Lumbermen’s Museum’s new executive director. The lumbermen’s...
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Aroostook House of Comfort hosts 13th Annual Golf Classic
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine – The Aroostook Hospice Foundation proudly hosted its 13th Annual Golf Classic on Saturday, June 20 at the Presque Isle Country Club, raising approximately $96,000 to support the Aroostook House of Comfort. The tournament brought together an incredible show of community support, with 161 sponsors, 45 teams, 38 raffle and prize donors, 13 in-kind donors and 31 volunteers helping make this year’s event another tremendous success.
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Native American veterans honored during ceremony
HOULTON, Maine – Veterans Day is traditionally held every Nov. 11, but that is not the only time Native servicemen and women are honored. On Sunday, June 21, the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians paid tribute to its tribal citizens who served their country during a Native American Veterans Day celebration. A small gathering of about 30 people attended Sunday morning’s salute to tribal veterans, both past and present.
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Star-Spangled Sing-Off Local Winner Candace Bosse Shares About Her First Round Win.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - We begin a new summer series called For Arts Sake, where, every Tuesday through the summer, we are going to take a good look at arts in the County, ranging from music to dance to theater, even to the health benefits of the arts for those who take part both in school and through adulthood! We are kicking off the series with a solid start, as we get to know the local winner of the Star Spangled Sing Off, Candace Bosse. NewsSource 8’s Kelly O’Mara sat down with her today to hear her story and what the Star Spangled Banner means to her.
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House in the Woods is hosting a free car show and concert in Lee
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Presque Isle senior signs with Saint Joseph’s College golf team
Presque Isle High School senior Logan Caron will continue his academic and athletic career at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, where he will study business management and compete on the Monks’ NCAA Division III golf team. Caron signed his letter of intent on May 29, surrounded by family,...
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Maine filmmaker’s work comes to his hometown Aroostook cinema this week
The Fort Kent Cinema will put local talent on the big screen later this month when it shows the work of a native filmmaker. Oliver Caron, who now attends Southern Maine Community College in Portland, worked on multiple films for the Maine Mayhem Film Festival that will come to his hometown next week.
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Missing for nearly a century, Caribou’s Boston Post Cane traveled 800 miles home
In the dead of this winter, Scott Michaud stopped by the Caribou Historical Society to check the mail. Greeting him and another member of the society was a long, skinny cardboard box. Inside: the answer to a mystery that had eluded northern Maine historians for nearly a century. “As we...
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13th annual Aroostook House of Comfort Golf Classic set for June 20
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The Aroostook Hospice Foundation, owner of the Aroostook House of Comfort, is proud to announce the 13th annual Aroostook House of Comfort Golf Classic, taking place Saturday, June 20 at the Presque Isle Country Club. The annual tournament has become one of the Foundation’s signature fundraising events, raising more than $610,000 to support compassionate, dignified inpatient hospice care for patients and families across northern Maine.