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updated: Fri Jul 18, 2008 05:18 am

Aroostook County News

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Friday | WAGM TV

Caribou Burglary Update

On July 9 Robert Suire, John Sam and Jared Thompson were arrested in connection with the burglaries.

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Related Topix: Caribou, ME

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Bangor Daily News

Schools renew efforts to merge

There's a new mediator and a new set of pressure-inducing deadlines, but the people involved in a new effort to comply with a state education law and consolidate schools into one Regional School Unit of 27 ...

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Related Topix: Penobscot County, ME, Lowell (University of Massachusetts System), University of Massachusetts System, Piscataquis County, ME, Sanford, ME

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Bangor Daily News

Buffalo Bill entertained Bangor a century ago

Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World performed two shows in Bangor's Maplewood Park - the future Bass Park - on July 15, 1908, a century ago tomorrow.

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Related Topix: Bangor Metro, Bangor, ME

Sat Jul 12, 2008

Bangor Daily News

Unsettling figures show murders have increased sharply

Maine State Police homicide detective Lt. Gary Wright was sitting in the Somerset County Courthouse waiting for a verdict in the murder trial of Shannon Atwood recently when his pager went off.

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Related Topix: Somerset County, ME, Old Orchard Beach, ME, Portland Metro, Maine, Maine Government

Fri Jul 11, 2008

Bangor Daily News

County native to show film

A film by an Aroostook County native and self-taught filmmaker will take center stage in movie theaters throughout the state in the coming weeks when a full-length action-adventure film that he created is ...

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Related Topix: Bar Harbor, ME, Biddeford, ME, Brunswick, ME, Bridgton, ME

Thu Jul 10, 2008

Bangor Daily News

State approves Kibby wind farm project

State regulators gave final approval Wednesday to a $270 million wind farm and transmission line proposed for the mountains of rural Franklin County.

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Related Topix: Franklin County, ME, Orono, ME, Washington County, ME

Tue Jul 08, 2008

WAGM TV

World Movie Premiere in the County

Aroostook County native John Bosley has followed his dream...right to the big screen.

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Related Topix: Caribou, ME

Magic City Morning Star

Graveyard

Down the road about a fourth of a mile from our house on the Goding Road was an old cemetery, which was surrounded by a rusting, black wrought iron fence.

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Sun Jul 06, 2008

Bangor Daily News

State's handling of short lobsters case questioned

All he wanted, Tom Santaguida said, was to be treated fairly. Santaguida, 46, is the former colonel of the Maine Warden Service with a stellar record and a 35-year lobster fisherman with a clean license.

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Related Topix: Bangor Metro, Bangor, ME, Harpswell, ME, Life, Food, Seafood

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Bangor Daily News

Houlton: County shelter desperate for people to adopt cats

By Jen Lynds Friday, July 4, 2008 - Bangor Daily News HOULTON, Maine - Cathy Davis, the president of the Houlton Humane Society, acknowledged Wednesday that staffers at the Houlton Animal Shelter were excited ...

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Related Topix: Bangor Metro, Bangor, ME, Houlton, ME, Canada

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Bangor Daily News

The County, western Maine see copious June rainfall

Although the weather was bright in Aroostook County earlier this week, The County and other parts of the state have seen higher-than-normal amounts of rainfall this season.

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Related Topix: Maine, Fort Kent, ME, Caribou, ME, Weather, Houlton, ME

Wed Jul 02, 2008

WAGM TV

Late Blight Concerns

Late blight first appeared in the mid 1800's in Ireland during conditions similar to what we've been experiencing here in Aroostook County in recent weeks.

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Mon Jun 30, 2008

Times-Transcript

County Gospel festival gears up for fifth summer

B4 Plans are now well underway for the fifth annual County Gospel Music Festival, July 12, at FARM Park in Fort Fairfield.

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Related Topix: Manchester, ME, Fort Fairfield, ME

Sun Jun 29, 2008

Bangor Daily News

Three injured when two vehicles strike same moose

Two Aroostook County men escaped serious injury after hitting the same moose within seconds of each other.

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Related Topix: Caribou, ME, Stockholm, ME

Fri Jun 27, 2008

Bangor Daily News

Stacyville: SAD 25 to vote on $4.5 million budget

Voters in SAD 25 are heading to the polls today to vote on a $4.5 million budget for the coming school year.

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Related Topix: Stacyville, ME, Patten, ME, Education Etc.

Wed Jun 25, 2008

Bangor Daily News

Bangor eyes tighter methadone clinic limits

Members of the city's community advisory committee on methadone clinics grappled Monday with a proposal to place limitations on the clinics.

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Related Topix: Bangor Metro, Bangor, ME, Maine, Washington County, ME

Mon Jun 23, 2008

Magic City Morning Star

Diary of an Ice Storm

Day 1.) If anyone happened to look through the windows of our home that evening, one would have witnessed an idyllic scene.

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Related Topix: Minot, ME, Portland Metro, Portland, ME, Mother, Alternative

Sat Jun 21, 2008

Bangor Daily News

County to rock out for a good cause

Things grow well in Aroostook County. Potatoes. Broccoli. Peas. Musicians. A lot of those things get shipped away upon ripening - the spuds hitch a ride in big rigs down I-95 to meet their destiny in the form ...

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Related Topix: Bangor Metro, Bangor, ME, Farmington, ME, Ani Difranco, Folk, Potatoes, Life, Food, Vegetables

Thu Jun 19, 2008

WABI-TV Bangor

Marijuana Ring

Two northern Maine men each face up to 40 years in prison and hefty fines after being found guilty of drug charges for their roles in an international marijuana distribution ring.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Caribou, ME

WAGM TV

Two Arrested For Trying to Steal Copper Wire

The State Police have arrested two Aroostook county men for attempting to steal copper wire in Ashland.

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Related Topix: Ashland, ME, Caribou, ME, Easton, ME

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