Although the 24th annual Relay for Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, will not happen until late June, spreading cancer awareness and raising funds has been looming large in Lisa Leduc’s mind ever since last year’s event ended.
The following births were recorded recently at Houlton Regional Hospital.
Donna Grass, a resident of Sherman, recently celebrated her 94th birthday, and clearly that’s just a number for this active community member.
Donald Chasse has become a strong leader in his community of Madawaska, where he has served as a selectman, school committee member and Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts, and held a seat on nearly 10 other committees.
When Pamela Snow Sweetser of Presque Isle teaches folks about women and transportation from the late 1800s to the 1930s, she likes to question the idea that women of that era were always confined to traditional gender roles such as being housewives and mothers and never participated in what was considered to be “men’s spaces.”
Many people think of children when they hear the phrase “storytime.” But that wasn’t the case at Northern Maine Community College on March 6, as more than a dozen adults gathered at the campus library for a storytime event tailored just for them.
William Gahagan, 74, of Caribou has worked for the local police department since 1968 and doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
A new monthly educational and support group for new and expectant parents or caregivers began March 1 through the efforts of Northern Light OB/GYN in Presque Isle. Baby Steps will meet the first Friday of each month from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library in Presque Isle.
Growing up as the oldest of 12 siblings in rural Maine, Bonnie (Bustard) Pratt learned as a youngster to appreciate what she had and not to dwell on things she did not.
On a sunny, clear afternoon March 2, Marcia Kilcollins cheered loudly as she sped down the snowtubing hill at Bigrock Ski Area in Mars Hill. Kilcollins is one of Bigrock’s most dedicated snowtubers and at 78 years old she has no plans to stop going every winter.
