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Aroostook County 'Rosie the Riveter' gets Congressional Gold Medal

In Maine alone, 2,000 women worked at Bath Iron Works and 3,700 women worked at a South Portland shipyard building Liberty ships.

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These 5 businesses are for sale in Aroostook County

Several local businesses are up for sale, with price tags ranging from nearly $2 million to under $200,000.

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Houlton cleans up after eclipse event that 'surpassed expectations'

On Tuesday, the thrill remained as planners shared stories about the three-day festival leading up to the spectacular celestial occurrence.

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Houlton's Carleton Project helps students who can't make it in public school

The kids who go to the Carleton Project are often the kids that everyone else has turned their back on.

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Rising domestic violence homicides worry Aroostook officials

The number of deaths may seem small but the upward trend in domestic violence in sparsely populated Aroostook County has officials concerned.

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Aroostook emergency planners are preparing for eclipse influx

In just over two months, 40,000 or more eclipse chasers are predicted to descend upon the area, and local officials hope to be ready.

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Domestic abuse homicide panel calls for better welfare checks

Of the state’s 67 murders in the three-year period of the study, 31 were domestic abuse related.

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Aroostook County basket maker is keeping Mi'kmaq art alive

"“If these few families pass away, who is going to make the baskets and who's going to teach others?"

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Love being part of The County - The County

To the editor: Long story short: We live in southeastern Pennsylvania and recently bought a cabin on Drews Lake. How we ended up there is a story in and of itself. Suffice it to say, it was, for me, a dream come true.

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Aroostook woman's black fly bite salve is selling from Maine to Hawaii

Much like Burt’s Bees co-founder Roxanne Quimby, Suzanne Hiltz is a homesteader, an artist, a Renaissance woman of sorts.

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