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Volume III Issue 04 - January 27, 2012 - Friday edition
27 January 2012

AROOSTOOK COUNTY - Maine State Police are seeking a man who fled the scene of a snowsled accident on Thursday, Jan. 26, at approximately 8:40 p.m.

According to a press release from Sergeant Brian L. Harris, Ronald McGraw, age 39 of Patten, was driving a snowsled on Heald Ave. in Patten, when he struck a parked tractor trailer that Kerry Swallow of Patten owned.

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27 January 2012

FORT KENT - John Anderson, a middle school student, sent a letter to the town council that sparked an animated discussion during the most recent council meeting on Jan. 23.

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27 January 2012

FORT KENT - Time Warner Cable recently approached the town of Fort Kent about applying to the Connect ME authority for a grant which, if accepted, will pay most of the cost of building infrastructure to supply 66 residents of Violette Settlement with broadband Internet service.

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26 January 2012

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent will host environmental speaker, Rick Morrill, resource manager of Baxter State Park on Friday, Feb. 3 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon in Nadeau Hall teleconference room.

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26 January 2012

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent will host an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Tuesday, Jan. 31 from noon to 5 p.m. in the Fox Auditorium.

The blood drive is co-sponsored by UMFK's Kappa Rho and Student Nurses' Organization. A table will be set-up for individuals to make an appointment in Cyr Hall until Friday, January 27 or you may contact the American Red Cross at 1-800-733-2767 to schedule an appointment.

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26 January 2012

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent's Alumni Association will host a talent show on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m. in the UMFK Fox Auditorium.

Tickets will be sold at the door on the evening of the performance at $5 per person.

The show will feature a variety of local talent for the public to enjoy, including vocal, instrumental, and dance performances.

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26 January 2012

NEWPORT NEWS, VA/Fort Kent - The University of Maine at Fort Kent women's basketball team, winners of four straight games, jumped all the way into twenty-first place in this weeks' USCAA Coaches Poll released by the national office in Newport News, Virginia.

The UMFK men's basketball team, winners of nine of their last ten games, remained in eighth place in the Men's Basketball D1 poll.

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26 January 2012

AROOSTOOK COUNTY - In response to an urgent need to help offset cuts to the federal low income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, Maine's credit unions made a collective contribution to the "Keep ME Warm" Program of $30,000.

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26 January 2012

AROOSTOOK COUNTY - Hayes Gahagan, Chairman of the Aroostook County Republican Committee (ACRC), has announced that Aroostook County Republicans will be called to caucus Feb. 3 and 4. In the event of inclement weather, caucuses will be held Feb. 10 and 11. This event is for those towns that have yet to caucus.

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27 January 2012

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25 January 2012

ST. DAVID - Postal patrons in St. David may know more about the future of postal service in their town sometime during the first two weeks of March once the deadline for appeals to the proposal to close the town's post office has passed.

"The postal service is just another company in trouble," said Susan Mills, manager of post office operations for ZIP codes beginning 044, 046, and 047.

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25 January 2012

FORT KENT - At a town council meeting on Jan. 23, Fort Kent council members voted unanimously to develop an ordinance that prohibits the sale and use of consumer fireworks within the town limits after the new state law allowing fireworks in the state went into effect Jan. 1.

The town council's decision is in opposition to the town planning board's decision.

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26 January 2012

AROOSTOOK COUNTY - The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced that the U.S. and Canada have agreed to extend the 2006 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) for two years. Michaud, Chairman of the House Trade Working Group, led a bipartisan letter that was sent to USTR last October calling for strong, timely, and effective enforcement mechanisms as a condition for supporting an extension of the SLA.

Troy Jackson
26 January 2012

Dear Friends,

DHHS Shortfall Myths and Facts

Lately there has been a lot of discussion about the state's Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) budget and its purported shortfall. The Legislature will have to tackle this problem this session and we must deal with facts, not anecdotes.

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25 January 2012

FORT KENT - University of Maine Board of Trustees chose the University of Maine at Fort Kent campus as one of only three campuses system-wide to host the candidates for chancellor during the position search. The other two campuses were in Orono and Portland.

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24 January 2012

ST. JOHN VALLEY - It's not so much the size of Reno Voisine's ice fishing cabin that has folks in Frenchville and St. Agatha talking, though eight feet by 16 feet is larger than a typical ice camp. It's the craftsmanship and attention to every detail that makes it really special.

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24 January 2012

FORT KENT - Budget crunches at the federal level may cripple Maine's involvement in the World Acadian Congress in 2014.

The project, which has an $11.9 million total budget, originally stipulated a $1 million contribution from the state of Maine and a $1 million contribution from the United States government, said WAC Maine International President Jason Parent.

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24 January 2012

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent is offering a certification course in wildland firefighting which can result in $2000 to $3000 in payment to graduates for two to three weeks of deployment, a significant benefit in these tough economic times.

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24 January 2012
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25 January 2012

COLD SHOT JIGSAW - Marc-Andre Bedard of Quebec discharges a cartridge and lines up for his next shot at the NorAm Biathlon Cup on Saturday. - Birden image

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25 January 2012

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24 January 2012

ST. JOHN VALLEY - The United States Biathlon Foundation has partnered with Celebrities for Charity to offer a once-in-a-lifetime Super Bowl experience. Raffle tickets went on sale last week and are being offered at $2 per ticket, with a minimum of five tickets. All proceeds go to support the US Biathlon Team in their quest to win America's first Olympic Biathlon medal. The winning ticket holder will get the following:

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24 January 2012

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent's Presidential Lecture Series committee have awarded three individuals as the winners in the UMFK-sponsored writing contest conducted this past fall.

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24 January 2012

 

To the editor:

 

My wife and I are taking this opportunity to thank Boonie Theriault, one of Daigle Oil's drivers, and another young man for stopping to help push us out of a snow bank after we lost control on the slippery corner on Violette Settlement Road in Fort Kent on Friday, Jan. 20. Boonie you make us all proud!

David Fernald

Devin Michaud
23 January 2012

ST. JOHN VALLEY - Devin Michaud, biology major at the University of Maine at Fort Kent began training at Twin Rivers Paper Company in Madawaska, under an internship made available through Buckman USA.

Buckman USA is a global specialty chemical company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

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22 January 2012

ST. JOHN VALLEY - With only a little less than a month remaining and some snow on the ground, anticipation is undiminished at the Madawaska Snowmobile Club and its Second Annual USCC Madawaska100 Cross-Country Snowmobile Race is on schedule for Saturday, Feb. 18.

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22 January 2012

FORT KENT, Maine - Late Saturday night and into Sunday morning, temperatures dropped to -18 degrees Fahrenheit (-27.8 C) in Fort Kent, Maine, forcing organizers to delay the mass start for both the men and the women biathletes on the second day of the North American Cup Biathlon competition.

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21 January 2012

FORT KENT, Maine - With temperature at -3 degrees Fahrenheit, which is barely 1 degree above the minimum allowable temperature for a biathlon event, 44 biathletes from across the United States and Canada competed in the first day of the Biathlon NorAm Cup No. 3 contest.

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21 January 2012

ST. AGATHA - Seven might be the lucky number for fishing enthusiasts from all over the St. John Valley, Aroostook County, and beyond who will be converging on seven area lakes for the seventh annual Long Lake Ice Fishing Derby next weekend, Jan. 28 and 29.

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21 January 2012

As I write this, I am looking out on a typical winter day in Fort Kent, with snow falling gently and trucks and cars making their careful way back-and-forth on Main Street.

Behind me is chaos.

Some folks have noticed that there was little new news on the Fiddlehead Focus website on Friday. There is a reason. Early Friday morning, a man broke into the offices of Fiddlehead Focus and Paper Signs Ink, stealing equipment and vandalizing the interior.

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20 January 2012

FORT KENT - Fort Kent Police Chief Kenneth Michaud arrested 36-year-old Luis Alduende-Villa Friday afternoon in connection with a burglary at 267 West Main Street, which houses Paper Signs Ink, and is the operation center for Fiddlehead Focus.

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20 January 2012

FORT KENT - At some time during the early morning hours of Friday, Jan. 20, an individual or group of individuals burglarized the lower floor of a building located at 267 West Main Street, which houses Paper Signs Ink, and is the operation center for Fiddlehead Focus.

The thieves made away with an undetermined amount of computer and electronics equipment, software, and cash from both of the businesses.

21 December 2011

ST. JOHN VALLEY - People who wish to see all the news from the last issue should click on the "Previous Issue" link at the bottom and to the right of  this last story.

In order make the Fiddlehead Focus web page load  quickly and efficiently and to provide better organization to our readers, we are showing no more than a week of stories on the front page.

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