Apr 3, 2012 | Bangor Daily News
SAD 29 breaking with tradition, planning to eliminate harvest recess
For as long as SAD 29 has existed and farmers have been growing potatoes in Aroostook County, area schools have taken a recess in the fall to allow students to help with the harvest.
200 pigs killed in Sherman barn fire
About 200 pigs died in a fire at a pig farm off Sleeper Road late Sunday that might have been started by an electrical malfunction, Fire Chief Todd Hayes said Monday.
That was the early 1980's, when the majority of Aroostook County farmers still hired pickers and schools adjourned for three weeks each fall so students could work.