25 Years Ago — November 24, 1999
At your service – Students in Rose Sullivan’s fourth and fifth grade classes at Grand Isle Elementary School have opened and are staffing a schoolwide post office.
75 Years Ago – October 4, 1949
Over 500 Take Part In Folk Dance Festival — The Folk Dance Festival, which was held at the Recreation Center, proved to be a successful undertaking. Over 549 people participated in this Festival.
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.
10 Years Ago — November 12, 2014
Students learn about harvesting — Education technician Carlene Martin taught La Maternelle preschool students about sunflower seeds on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014.
50 Years Ago – November 13, 1974
Flewelling honored — Robert H. Flewelling was honored by the Northern National Bank upon completion of 25 years of service to the bank.
25 Years Ago – November 17, 1999
Area Youth Attend Adventure Training — More than 50 youths and chaperones from the southern Aroostook area attended a Ropes Adventure Training on Oct 10-11 at the Northern Outdoors Resort on the Kennebec River, as part of the Southern Aroostook Tobacco-Free Outreach Project (STOP) youth action program.
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 – November 10, 1999
A Washburn native reached the top post in State Police — Michael Sperry may have been the state’s top cop, but he still came home to Aroostook County to visit his grandparents.
25 Years Ago — November 10, 1999
Valley’s blue ribbon school – Officials at Dr. Levesque School in Frenchville learned their school was among the top 1 percent in the country.
75 Years Ago – September 27, 1949
Young Potato Picker Thinks Kindest People In The World Live In Houlton — Malcolm Connell, 20, of 484 Plainfield street, Providence, R.I., will leave for his home tomorrow convinced that the kindest people in the world are to be found in Houlton.