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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.

From our Files – Week of March 23, 2022

50 Years Ago -- March 23, 1972 Roland Desjardins bowls in sweepstakes -- Roland Desjardins competed in the ninth annual Charles H. Milan Memorial Sweepstakes bowling tourney which was held at the Bangor Brewer Lanes in Brewer on April 7-9, 1972.

From our Files – Week of March 16, 2022

50 Years Ago -- March 16, 1972 Making Beignets -- Mrs. Annette Guerrette displayed her culinary talents by cooking the well-known Acadian dessert called beignets. Mrs. Guerrette gave out her recipe for all to try.

From our Files – Week of March 9, 2022

50 Years Ago -- March 9, 1972 Local girl wins province cup -- Dawn Pelletier, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Pelletier of Madawaska and a member of the Mont Farlagne Ski Team, won the New Brunswick Cup for Alpine skiing at the meet at Campbellton in March 1972.

From our Files – Week of March 2, 2022

50 Years Ago -- March 2, 1972 No date to pick Madawaska manager -- The fact that Madawaska is again without a town manager is history, and the main subject now is who will be the next one appointed.

From our Files – Week of February 23, 2022

50 Years Ago -- Feb. 24, 1972 Madawaska man opens new woodwork operations -- Leo James Morin, a native of Madawaska, returned to his hometown after a 19-year absence to open up a woodwork shop on East Main Street situated near the Municipal Garage, specializing in custom-built cabinets and formica craftsmanship.

From our Files – Week of February 16, 2022

50 Years Ago -- Feb. 17, 1972 Clifford Roy’s speech at school -- “Working together for a better place to live” was Clifford Roy’s theme as he spoke to Mrs. Muriel Cote’s third grade at Market Street School in Fort Kent. Roy visited the school to further explain “wise use of our natural resources.”

From our Files – Week of February 9, 2022

50 Years Ago -- Feb. 10, 1972 Biggest center north of Bangor -- “It will be the largest shopping center north of Bangor,” promised Leo Bouchard, when he described Madawaska’s Midtown Shopping Center after the new addition. A new W.T. Grant Store will be the major addition and it will stretch from the edge of the shopping center over to Sixth Avenue.

From our Files – Week of February 2, 2022

50 Years Ago -- Feb. 3, 1972 Visit Times -- Children in grades 5-8 from Allagash toured the offices of the St. John Valley Times last Friday in 1972. The children were accompanied on the field trip by teachers, George Carpenter and Mrs. Clara McBreairty.

From Our Files – Week of January 26, 2022

50 Years Ago -- Jan. 27, 1972 Honor Mrs. Rice -- Mrs. Kathleen Rice, founder and past head librarian at the Madawaska Public Library, was presented with a plaque on a Tuesday in 1972, for her dedication and service to the library and the people of Madawaska. Msgr. Albert Long made the presentation on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the library.

From our Files – January 19, 2022

50 Years Ago -- Jan. 20, 1972 Physicals for Head Start children -- Head Start students at the Fort Kent center recently received physical examinations at the office of Dr. Rod Albert in town. March Michaud with Anne Paradis, R.N., and his mother Mrs. Paul Emile Michaud, was present. All children were present with their parents and staff for the physicals.

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