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🌱 Caribou’s Veterans Day ceremony takes place today at veterans cemetery
Caribou, Maine Patch AM: a 4 min readHey hey Caribou! Your one-stop source for local news is here. Continue reading for all the updates. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Caribou’s Veterans Day ceremony takes place today at veterans cemetery
- Caribou freshman earns Miss Aroostook Teen crown
- Allagash family’s decades-old land claim heads toward federal trial
Also on today's calendar: Seacoast Artisans 27th Annual Holiday Fine Arts & Craft Show.
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Partly sunny with a shower, with a high of 40 and low of 26 degrees.
- Thursday: Considerable cloudiness, temps: high: 40, low: 24.
- Friday: A thick cloud cover, with a high of 39 and low of 33 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Maine Communities Plan Veterans Day Parades and Ceremonies for Nov. 11 (themainewire.com) — Caribou’s Veterans Day ceremony is scheduled for today, Nov. 11, from 1 to 2 p.m. at Northern Maine Veterans Cemetery, 37 Lombard Road. The local observance joins parades, wreath-laying ceremonies and community gatherings honoring military veterans across Maine. 
• Crossroads Youth Center crowns Miss Aroostook, Miss Northern Maine titleholders (wagmtv.com) — Caribou High School freshman Bailey Cochran won Miss Aroostook Teen 2027 at Crossroads Youth Center’s Nov. 1 pageants in Caribou. The event drew 35 contestants, who raised more than $4,188 for classroom snacks across Maine. Crowned contestants advance to the Maine Academic Scholarship Pageant next fall.
• Long-standing Allagash land dispute will go to 2027 federal trial (thecounty.me) — An Allagash family’s claim to 80 acres of timberland is headed toward a federal jury trial in 2027. The Kelly heirs say decades of openly using and maintaining the property establish their ownership, while Allagash Timberlands disputes their claim. Originally filed in Caribou, the case requires parties to be trial-ready June 3.
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Wednesday November 11
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Veterans Day Holiday →
Fort Fairfield Fire & Rescue, 18 Community Center Drive, Fort Fairfield
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Wednesday Game Nights at the Northeastland →
The Northeastland Hotel – The Lounge, 436 Main Street, Presque Isle
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Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia →
Aroostook Agency On Aging, 260 Main St, Presque Isle
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Trivia Night at the Lounge →
The Northeastland Hotel – The Lounge, 436 Main Street, Presque Isle
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Karaoke at the VFW →
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 130 Presque Isle St., Fort Fairfield -
Anastasia the Musical →
Presque Isle High School Auditorium, 16 Griffin Street, Presque Isle
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Presque Isle Farmers Market →
Presque Isle Pavilion, 19 Riverside Dr, Presque Isle
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MECDHH/GBSD Power of Peers – Aroostook →
Skyway Elementary, 569 Skyway Street, Presque Isle
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Public Youth Art Group →
Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library, Circulation Computer, Presque Isle
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Fort Fairfield Utilities District Public Meeting →
Fort Fairfield Utilities District, 100 High St, Fort Fairfield
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Gather 72 →
Governor’s Restaurant, 350 Main Street, Presque Isle
6:00 pm
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Thursday November 12
Friday November 13
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- Dunkin' posted a job opening for Crew Member in Caribou. Apply here.
- Career Systems Development Corp posted a job opening for Residential Advisor - Prime Shift in Limestone. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Caribou here.
🗞 Nearby News
Presque Isle
- 2027 birthing classes (thecounty.me)
- Hannaford Rebrands Graves' Shop ‘n Save in Maine (progressivegrocer.com)
- Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine sets Nov. 13 deadline for Christmas gift sign-ups (wagmtv.com)
Houlton
- ICE Boston deports Illegal immigrant convicted of lying about role in Rwandan Genocide (bostonherald.com)
- Aroostook educator's YA novel teaches inner resilience (bangordailynews.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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