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Hype for the Future 62WEM: Town of Weston, Maine
Overview The Town of Weston is located at the southeastern edge of Aroostook County, Maine, in the United States of America. Though physically in the Aroostook County boundaries, the community actually shares more cultural similarities with the Down East region than with the Aroostook Valley, particularly through the influence of the Town of Danforth located immediately to the south. Along both the northbound and the southbound directions of United States Route 1, scenic turnouts exist […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/hype-for-the-future-62wem-town-of-weston-maine/
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Hype for the Future 62L: Fort Fairfield, Maine
Introduction The Town of Fort Fairfield, Maine, is located in Aroostook County, just west of the Easterly Line of the State with the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. Fort Fairfield contains three villages, all unincorporated as with most other villages throughout New England except in parts of Vermont. Etymology The name “Fort Fairfield” is an English name originally, but in the sense of the Aroostook Valley has originally referred to a particular military outpost during the time of […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/hype-for-the-future-62l-fort-fairfield-maine/
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Hype for the Future 62F: Town of Van Buren, Maine
Introduction Located in the Acadian Saint John Valley of Northern Maine and Aroostook County, the Town of Van Buren is most notable in tourism for the Acadian Village, a living history museum and tribute to the early Acadian settlers on both sides of the Saint John Valley. Amenities Like most of the Saint John Valley, the region in Northern Maine is largely residential, though the scenic and recreational elements are also relevant to the Francophone lifestyle and experience within the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/hype-for-the-future-62f-town-of-van-buren-maine/
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#FoodPantries in #Maine’s most vulnerable regions brace for #SNAP lapse
by Cameron Levasseur, October 27, 2025
Excerpt: "Rural areas like #AroostookCounty, where SNAP enrollment is well above the state average, are expected to feel a greater strain, as more residents, missing benefits, will turn to food pantries to fill their need.
"Do those pantries have the supply to meet new demand? The short answer is: they’re trying.
" 'There isn’t a program that can replace that,' Blanchard, Catholic Charities’ director of hunger and relief services, said. 'But we’re best suited to do the most good and hit as much need as possible.'
"Food pantries across Maine are already feeling a squeeze levied by cuts to several key #USDA programs earlier this year. In March, the federal government cut approximately $500 million in funding from The Emergency Food Assistance Program (#TEFAP) which provides American-grown food bought by the USDA.
"The Trump administration also ended the #LocalFood Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, which gave money to states to purchase locally produced food that would then be distributed to food banks.
" 'Before we were getting maybe four or five cases of something and now we’re getting only maybe one case,' said Rena Kearney, a volunteer at the Mars Hill Community Cupboard — which serves around 14 families weekly. 'If you get one case of string beans, that’s got 24 cans in it, it doesn’t go very far.' "
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https://archive.ph/v6DHW#Mainers #MaineFoodBanks #HungerGames #USDACuts #SNAPCuts #StarveThePoor #TrumpSucks #USPol #FoodAssistance #FoodInsecurity
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As insect invaders approach, researchers use a combination of indigenous knowledge and Western forestry science to save a valuable tradition
By Willy Blackmore Nov 25, 2019,
"Suzanne Greenlaw doesn’t like chainsaws. She moves quickly through the chest-high ostrich ferns, frilly leaves heavy with rain, as the orange saw sputters and then chokes. 'She gets all freaked out,' says Gabriel Frey, laughing as he yanks the starting cord again with one heavily muscled arm, the saw whirring to life. Putting the bar to a trunk of shaggy, gray-tinged bark, he begins to cut, the grinding sound of the saw echoing through the damp, green-lit stand.
"The felled tree is one of three that Frey and Greenlaw carefully picked out of the woods on the cool, damp July day in far northern #Maine. Plenty of logs are hauled out of the forest there, in #AroostookCounty, which is home to a chunk of the #NorthMaineWoods, a 3.5 million-acre expanse of commercial timberland. But Frey and Greenlaw, and the stand of gray-barked trees, are part of a tradition that’s far older than any timber camp or lumber mill. The trees are #FraxinusNigra, commonly known as #BlackAsh or #BrownAsh, which have forever been at the hearts of the lives of Maine’s indigenous tribes.
"Greenlaw, a #Maliseet forestry scientist working on her PhD at the University of Maine, is at the forefront of the effort to protect the state’s brown ash. The trees are at risk of being wiped out by the emerald ash borer, an #InvasiveSpecies that has been killing ash trees in North America for the better part of 20 years. With the help of Frey, a renowned #Passamaquoddy basket maker, as well as the broader #Wabanaki basket-making community, the married couple is fighting to preserve the rich tradition the tree supports."
#IndigenousTraditions #IndigenousWisdom #EmeraldAshBorer #SaveTheTrees #ClimateChange #InvasiveSpecies #MaineWoods #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Angel ornament made from uranium glass from the Aroostook River in Caribou, Maine. By Kim Chabre https://riverbedart.com/product/aroostook-river-angel-uranium-glass/ #riverbedart #buyintoart #maineartists #maine #AroostookCounty #aroostookriver