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Caribou Area Chamber of Commerce
The rural American lifestyle is alive and well in northern Maine. Living here, you’ll find yourself among people who take pride in what they do. Your neighbors are people you’ll know by first name when you meet them on the street and you’ll have a real opportunity to make a positive impact on the community you live in.
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Caribou Area Chamber of Commerce
The rural American lifestyle is alive and well in northern Maine. Living here, you’ll find yourself among people who take pride in what they do. Your neighbors are people you’ll know by first name when you meet them on the street and you’ll have a real opportunity to make a positive impact on the community you live in.
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Caribou Area Chamber of Commerce
The rural American lifestyle is alive and well in northern Maine. Living here, you’ll find yourself among people who take pride in what they do. Your neighbors are people you’ll know by first name when you meet them on the street and you’ll have a real opportunity to make a positive impact on the community you live in.
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Caribou Area Chamber of Commerce
The rural American lifestyle is alive and well in northern Maine. Living here, you’ll find yourself among people who take pride in what they do. Your neighbors are people you’ll know by first name when you meet them on the street and you’ll have a real opportunity to make a positive impact on the community you live in.
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Memorial Day Parade
The annual Memorial Day parade will be held at 10:00 on May 27 and is sponsored by the Lister-Knowlton VFW Post 8389 and the Caribou Area Chamber of Commerce. Please call William at 498-6156 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for a registration form if you would like to participate in the parade. Click here for form.
Welcome to Caribou
Ah Caribou! What a beautiful place this is. Rivers, streams and brooks were modes of transportation or power for industry. Now they provide ribbons of beauty in an urban, yet rural landscape. Hills throughout the town provide scenic vistas that are breathtaking in every season. In winter, snow-swept fields stretch for miles coating the town with a pure white. In spring, early flowers and foliage and fruit buds bring the promise of hope. In summer, flowers abound, farm fields flow in geometric shapes and the greenest green is everywhere. And of course, in fall, the colors are unrivaled anywhere.
Caribou is rich with ironies. It is a place where values of the past have hung on a little bit longer than in the rest of New England. And yet, foresight has made our communication infrastructure far ahead of the curve. It is a place of long, hard winters and yet of warm, generous hearts. Caribou is a place of faith and yet, self-reliance.
There is a cultural diversity here. Irish, Scottish and English descendents mixed with an infusion of Swedes and the families of the French and Acadian culture have long been one of the glues to our heritage. Other cultures arrived and are welcomed and become a part of the community.
Caribou is also a culture of hard work. Our citizens grew up on farms or participated in fall harvests as teenagers. They sustained an airforce base and many manufacturing plants over the decades. The hands of Caribou people are happiest when busy and productive. Any business that has come to the area has never longed for a heartier workforce.
And Caribou is a place of creativity. The arts are encouraged here. Creativity carved a city out of the wilderness a hundred and fifty years ago when the pioneer spirit was the same as the Oregon Trail. That creativity lives on in a people not afraid to try out new ideas and adapt to new business landscapes.
Caribou seems to be just the right mixture of the modern and the values of the past. We have our computers and wireless connections, and great cell phone signals. You can buy most of the latest things here. But at the same time, life is just a bit slower. The earth is felt just a little deeper. The sky seems closer and yet more dynamic. The wildlife still teems. The snowmobile trails go on forever.
Yes, Caribou is our home and we are happy here. Welcome. There is plenty of the good stuff to go around and if there is one thing we have in abundance, it is the room to grow!
Nominate Business and Citizen Awards
The Caribou Annual Recognition Dinner has been postponed from May 9 to May 23. We simply did not feel comfortable with the number of nominations we had currently received. Thus, we would like to give you one more shot at nominating a person, business or organization for one of our annual awards. Our deadline for hearing from you is May 3.
Here are the awards we bestow:
- Lifetime Achievement Award: What long-time citizen of our community has built a lifetime of good works and brought great benefit to our community?
- Business of the Year: What area business has come to symbolize our community the most and done the best job for its customers over the past year?
- Citizen of the Year: What person in our community has stood out and made a difference in the past year?
- Spirit of Caribou: What person, business or organization has added the most to our community?
- Downtown Revitalization Award: What downtown Caribou business has added the most hope to rebuilding our downtown area?
There are three ways you can nominate for these awards. Either send me an e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , mail them to me at 657 Main St., Ste 1, Caribou, ME 04736, or go to our website atwww.cariboumaine.net and click the Contact Us link to fill out the contact form.
Thank you in advance for your participation!