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Arootsakoostik music festival to return this weekend

The Arootsakoostik Music Festival will return to Thomas Park in New Sweden on Saturday, July 6, and is slated to feature music from 10 different acts.

Morgan’s Recipe Series: Freedom Chicken Salad

You just got invited to that last minute Fourth of July potluck. What is fast, cheap and easy to make? How about some delicious Freedom Chicken Salad?

5 generations get together

Gathered for a special five-generation photo are, from left, standing: Ransford (Pike) Kelly, his daughter Bethann (Kelly) Thibodeau and her son Kelly Thibodeau.

Births at NMMC — Late May and early June, 2019

The following births were recorded recently at Northern Maine Medical Center.

Morgan’s Recipe Series: Dobie’s Baked Beans

Do you know what you’re going to take to that potluck, or what you’re going to cook to wow your friends as you host the best Fourth of July party the Valley has seen?

Annual area yard sale successfully connects community

Community members from Grand Isle to Sinclair opened up their garages and set their treasures on their yards to be scouted out by shoppers during the fifth annual Community-Wide Yard Sale over the weekend of June 8-9 in the Valley.

Cyr earns degree in physician assistant studies

Taylor Cyr, daughter of Scott and Tonia Cyr of Madawaska and Pamela and Craig Thibodeau of Fort Kent

96-year-old receives special honor for his service

A resident at Ridgewood Estates received a special honor Tuesday, when the American Legion Post 147 presented Martin Lavoie with a special hand-carved cane for his service in the Maine State Guard.

Births at Northern Maine Medical Center

The following births were recorded recently at Northern Maine Medical Center.

Births at Cary

The following local births were recently announced at Cary Medical Center.

Local parish receives $5,000 ministry grant

An Aroostook County parish is one of four in Maine to receive Matthew 25 Awards, which include grants ranging from $2,000 to $5,000, from Catholic Charities Maine.

Allagash’s Faye O’Leary Hafford leaves legacy of town library and so much more

The day before she passed away at 94 years old on Thursday, May 16, Faye O’Leary Hafford made plans to work at the library she founded in her beloved hometown of Allagash.

Fort Kent native and recent Yale graduate prepares for music fellowship in Israel

A 2015 Fort Kent Community High School graduate who also graduated from Yale University last week will embark on a year-long music fellowship in Israel.

Facility offers free furniture, appliances to County veterans in need

In Aroostook County, numerous veterans every year find themselves homeless after having served in military combat and returning to the states unable to face the physical and emotional demons that haunt them.

Valley youngsters have ‘funnest’ time learning traditional Acadian dance

Third grade students in Lynn Plourde’s class at Fort Kent Elementary School learned traditional Acadian dance from a master dance instructor on Wednesday, May 8.

Couple with local ties announce son’s birth

Tracey and Matthew Roy of Orono welcomed their son, Thomas Norman Roy, who was born on Feb. 12, 2019, at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

ACAP Head Start parent visits Augusta

Aroostook County Action Program Early Care and Education staff, along with a parent of an enrolled child, recently participated in the annual Head Start Goes to Augusta event at the Maine State House.

Mother’s Day and May: Gather your own flowers

Mother’s Day is always a great time for a family walk and in northern Maine, the celebration of motherhood overlaps with the process of trees and shrubs coming out of dormancy, or “greening up.”

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