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From our Files – Week of August 10, 2022

50 Years Ago -- August 10, 1972 Madawaska service league all-stars -- The Madawaska Service League All-Stars traveled to Presque Isle Aug. 10, 1972, to compete in a single-elimination tournament. The members of the Madawaska team were Andrew Page, Kevin Sirois, Jim Meyers, Mike Lavoie, Don Violette, Tom Guerrette, Mike Morin, Dennis Collins, Darryl Pelletier, Greg Campbell, Jim Hachey, Ron Pratt, Ernie Colemand and Jeff Cyr.

From our Files – Week of August 3, 2022

50 Years Ago -- August 3, 1972 Getting it done -- Work was being done on the new shopping center going up on Fox Street in Madawaska. Irwin Cooperman of Boston, Massachusetts, who is in charge of leasing the facilities to merchants, reports that the Zayre’s store is scheduled to open in November 1972.

From our Files – Week of July 27, 2022

50 Years Ago -- July 27, 1972 Cyr was honored at a banquet -- Raoul Cyr of Madawaska was recognized at a banquet held July 2, 1972, at the Knights of Columbus Hall. Close to 200 people attended the Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event honoring Cyr on his retirement as postmaster of the Madawaska Post Office.

From our Files – Week of July 20, 2022

50 Years Ago -- July 20, 1972 Three sets of twins attend Wallagrass School -- Three sets of twins will be entering Wallagrass Elementary School in the fall of 1972. This is unusual since the school has a small enrollment in grades K through 6. The twins are Kevin and Sharon Coulombe, Janet and Janice Belanger, and Ronald and Donald Daigle.

From our Files – Week of July 13, 2022

50 Years Ago -- July 13, 1972 Television tower awaiting assembly -- “It’s like having a car with no wheels,” said Madawaska town manager Louis Cyr of the arrival of the 300-foot-plus television tower and its impending construction. Cyr’s point is that the question of whether or not the tower will be operational in the near future depends upon the actions of Maine Microwave.

From our Files – Week of July 6, 2022

50 Years Ago -- July 13, 1972 Madawaska bus drivers participate in a workshop -- Bus drivers participated in a safety workshop conducted in 1972 by Reno Deprey, a driver education instructor at Madawaska High School.

From our Files – Week of June 29, 2022

50 Years Ago -- June 29, 1972 Airport nears the end of construction -- After five years of planning and work, the Northern Maine Regional Airport is finally becoming a reality. The airport is expected to be ready for operation by July 22, 1972. Construction is entering its final stages.

From our Files – Week of June 22, 2022

50 Years Ago -- June 22, 1972 Van Buren-St. Leonard bridge construction -- The reconstruction of the bridge resumed in May of 1972. The new bridge will be 10 feet higher in the center than the original and will be four feet higher on the ends.

From our Files – Week of June 15, 2022

50 Years Ago -- June 15, 1972 Daigle graduated from Hope -- Cecile Daigle graduated from Hope School in June of 1972 and was presented with a trophy and a scroll plaque by the staff. Her classmates baked her a cake and all the students and staff members had lunch with Cecile before she left the school.

From our Files – Week of June 8, 2022

50 Years Ago -- June 8, 1972 Musical Nadeaus -- The “Nadeau Family” of Van Buren will furnish the music for the eighth-grade graduation dance to be held Thursday, June 15, 1972, at the Fort Kent Elementary School gym. The Nadeau Family were the top winners of the amateur hour show held at Fort Kent last month. The Nadeau Family are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Nadeau of Van Buren.

From our Files – Week of May 18, 2022

50 Years Ago -- May 18, 1972 Baseball and skiing on the same day -- Rita Giroux, Velma Daigle and Bernice Cyr, all of Fort Kent, who went skiing at the Fort Kent slope on May 1, 1972. At the same time the Fort Kent High Warriors were playing Madawaska High in baseball on the Fort Kent diamond.

From our Files – Week of May 18. 2022

50 Years Ago -- May 11, 1972 Wool gatherers -- Ten local farmers are planning to begin raising about 100 sheep each in this area in the near future.

From our Files – Week of May 4, 2022

50 Years Ago -- May 4, 1972 Entertainments at junior high -- About 350 seventh and eight grade students were entertained Tuesday afternoon in 1972, during activity period by Paul Gauvin and Georges Johnson, in the Fort Kent Elementary school gym.

From our Files – Week of April 27, 2022

50 Years Ago -- April 27, 1972 County farms average 260.5 acres in size -- Aroostook County showed a total of 2,153 farms in the 1969 Census of Agriculture, according to figures released by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of the Census, a part of the department’s Social and Economic Statistics Administration.

From our Files – Week of April 20, 2022

50 Years Ago -- April 20, 1972 Bachelors around in Aroostook County -- Calling all single women. Now hear this. Aroostook County is loaded with single men. Bachelors abound in the local area to the extent that there are, according to the official count, some 122 of them parading around unattached for every 100 single women.

From our Files – Week of April 13, 2022

50 Years Ago -- April 13, 1972 First in County -- Two students from Acadia School, Ann Albert’s, won second place in the state Keep Maine Green poster contest, and Steven Myers, whose poster won first place in the county poster contest.

From our Files – Week of April 6, 2022

50 Years Ago -- April 6, 1972 First retirement -- Donald Higgins is the first man to retire from Northern Trading Company in Madawaska. Jack Vollman presented him a check and watch for his seven years of service with the company.

From our Files – Week of March 30, 2022

50 Years Ago -- March 30, 1972 Something to brag about -- Lise Rouleau and Charles Dufour have something to brag about. As a result of a letter-writing lesson in Miss Dyan Gardner’s fifth-grade language arts class at Acadia School, they have received correspondence from two world leaders.

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