25 Years Ago – Nov. 17, 1999
Center of attention — More than 200 people and a U.S. senator attended the open house Saturday for the nearly complete Ralph and Dorothy Allen Center for Women and Children’s Health at the Cary Medical Center.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 10, 1949
Nat’l. Trade magazine lands S.W. Collins building renovation — ‘The Lumber Co-operator,’ a national trade magazine, lauded the renovated S. W. Collins Co., office-warehouse building in its October issue.
25 Years Ago – Nov. 3, 1999
Officials visit the site of veterans cemetery — Legislators visited the proposed site of a veterans cemetery to get an idea of what needs to be done to change the field into a burial ground. Organizers hope to begin burials by Memorial Day.
25 Years Ago – Oct. 27, 1999
They make a difference — Taking time to paint a swing set at an elementary school, or walking to each house in Caribou to collect food for the hungry, organizations in Caribou extended a helping hand to those in need for ‘Make a Difference Day.’
25 Years Ago – Oct. 20, 1999
Time Warner plans to launch service next year — Road Runners coming. Time Warner Cable last week announced it would launch its high-speed, broadband Internet service in northern Maine early next year.
75 Years Ago – Oct. 13, 1949
Memorial gate constructed at New Sweden Thomas Park — As a memorial to all military veterans of New Sweden, that community has constructed a monument gate at the entrance of Thomas Park there which stands as a vivid reminder of indebtedness to that war group.
25 Years Ago – Oct. 6, 1999
Caribou man tops funds — Two years ago, Jim Curless of Caribou raised $8 for the American Diabetes Association walkathon. This year he topped $11,000.
Caribou man tops funds — Two years ago, Jim Curless of Caribou raised $8 for the American Diabetes Association walkathon. This year he topped $11,000.
75 Years Ago – Sept. 22, 1949
New french-fry plant will open here soon — ‘Although we are starting out with a new process, with new ideas, and are not completely certain as to results, we expect to process more than 550 carlots of Aroostook potatoes at the Caribou Birds-Eye Snider new frozen french-fry plant this year,’
25 Years Ago – Sept. 15, 1999
Caribou manufacturing firm aids McCain — BMW Manufacturing, a metalworking business in Caribou, hired 25 people for a McCain project where they will take out old equipment and install equipment from around the world.
75 Years Ago – Sept. 8, 1949
Caribou man named to head county bankers — At a meeting of nearly 150 members of the Aroostook Bankers Association in Houlton Wednesday, J. Franklin Anderson, treasurer of Caribou’s Aroostook Trust company, was elected new president of the organization.
