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FORT KENT - Rose Charette, a respected and beloved educator, veterans advocate and community activist, died Friday morning at a Fort Kent hospital.

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent's Presidential Lecture Series committee will host a writing contest titled, 'Unexpected Gifts.' The committee is searching for submissions from UMFK students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members.

Submissions should be about an unexpected gift given or received.

AROOSTOOK COUNTY -Northern Maine Community College will be joining with schools, churches, libraries and other organizations across the country in hosting a Read-In to celebrate Black History Month as well as to promote literacy. The public is invited to attend the NMCC event, which will take place at noon on Monday, Feb. 13, in the college library.

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent is participating in the 2012 RecycleMania Tournament, but the competition is more than just about keeping the university's classrooms, hallways, and dormitories clean. It's about winning national recognition.

MADAWASKA - An exhibit on display for the next few months in Madawaska at the Chamber of Commerce features local artisans who seek to preserve history and look to the future with their crafts.

FRENCHVILLE - Madawaska/SAD 33 Adult and Community Education is offering a class designed to help remove the intimidation factor from writing poetry.

"Painless, No Panic Poetry," taught by Monica Pettengill Jerkins, will meet on Tuesday evenings from 6 To 7:30 p.m. at the St. John Valley Technology Center beginning on Feb. 7.

AROOSTOOK COUNTY - A team of Northern Maine Community College students and employees are once again turning to the Aroostook County community to help raise funds for a good cause as they prepare to take their annual "polar dip" on Feb. 10 off the coast of Maine.

AROOSTOOK COUNTY - There were 52 logs, 40 volunteers, eight trees from eight different sites, seven landowners, two workshops, and best of all, no emerald ash borer.

WINTERVILLE - Deputy Sheriff Vance Palmer arrived at the scene of a vehicle rollover on Sunday near the southern Winterville town line just minutes after the accident occurred, in a lucky coincidence for the victims.

ST. JOHN VALLEY - The Valley Mustangs are looking to residents on both sides of the border in the St. John Valley for some revitalization and support for their organization.

Okay, I'll admit it.  Each year, I only start paying attention to football about six weeks before the Super Bowl.

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ST. JOHN VALLEY - On Tuesday morning, Jan. 31, at around 10 a.m., someone looked at the 700,000th web page for the month at FiddleheadFocus.com, marking a milestone in the progress of the fledgling news organization.

MADAWASKA - The Pride of Madawaska Marching Band will be taking orders for $5 foot-long subs until Feb. 2 for pick-up on Sunday morning Feb. 5, just in time for Super Bowl.

Organizers will make the subs fresh to order Sunday morning and they will be ready for pick up from 11a.m. -1 p.m. in the high school cafeteria.

FORT KENT/MADAWASKA - On Wednesday, Jan. 25 the Fort Kent Warriors faced the Madawaska Owls in a packed auditorium due to the long time 'town rivalry.'

The JV boys were first to take the court with Fort Kent beating Madawaska 41-37.

The varsity teams played next.

ST. JOHN VALLEY - Organizers of the Long Lake Ice-Fishing Derby closed the scales at 5:30 p.m. and tallied the results of the seventh annual event to determine who would share the $10,000 purse.

AROOSTOOK COUNTY - On Saturday, Maine State Trooper Carman Lilley arrested a man who, two days earlier, fled the scene of a snowmobile accident in Patten, Maine, abandoning a man who had sustained injuries in the accident.

According to a press release, Trooper Tim Saucier assisted Lilley when they located Ronald McGraw, age 39 of Patten, at his residence and arrested him without incident on an outstanding warrant.

Police then transported McGraw to the Penobscot County Jail in Bangor.

FORT KENT - Jenn Colpitts had game-highs of 22 points and five steals as the University of Maine at Fort Kent women's basketball team avenged a Jan. 8 loss to SUNY Canton by beating the Roos 75-51 Saturday afternoon in a USCAA match-up at home in Fort Kent on Jan. 21.

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.