General News
Iris scan coming to Granite
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:52:00 | Posted by Kristen
Wednesday May 2nd will not be a usual picture day for the second and third grade students a Granite Street School. These special school photos could be used one day to save a child's life. The children at Granite Street School will partipate in the iris scan program, which is sponsored by the Penosbscot County Sheriff['s Department and funded in part by a $25,000 grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation. The children will have a voluntrary iris scan, which requires parental concent, the scan will be stored in a database at the National Missing Children's Organization. These types of scans can assist law enforcement with an unalterable tool to help fight child abduction. The Millinocket School Baord approved the program at its February 13th meeting.Baxter Park spring clean up set
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:50:00 | Posted by Kristen
Baxter State Park invites the public to join Park staff and volunteers for its annual roadside litter patrol from Millinokcet Lake to Togue Pond . Last year's event was a great success and Park staff would like to spend another year cleaning up on the South End and its access.
The clean up is scheduled fro Saturday, May 5 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Volunteers should contact Park headquarters as soon as possible to sign up for a patrol. Those who participate and do their share will receive a free barbeque as a token of the staff's appreaciation.
Volunteers need to meet at the Northern Timber Cruisers Snowmobile Club in Millinocket (next to the radio station) that morning. For more information, call BSP Headquarters at 723-9616 or Deputy Chief Ranger Stewart Guay at 447-0585.
Millinocket Named #6 Hot Spot by TripAdvisor (Expedia.com)
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:49:00 | Posted by Kristen
As tourist destinations go, they all just roll together right off the tongue: Kailua, on the island of Oahu. Macon, Georgia. Vail, Colorado. Millinocket, Maine. Eureka, California.
Millinocket has been ranked 6th among the “Top 10 Hot U.S. Travel Destinations for 2007” by the travel website TripAdvisor.com.
Millinocket was the only place in Maine or even New England to make the list.
The Top-10 ranking doesn’t mean that Millinocket draws as much traffic on TripAdvisor.com as other prominent locations. The ranking is based on the number of site visitors searching for Millinocket, writing reviews of town destinations has dramatically increased over the last quarter and it is a barometer of a travel destination that is gaining momentum.
Millinocket’s proximity to Baxter State Park, Mount Katahdin, the ITS snowmobile trail system, hunting, fishing, white-water rafting, hiking and ATV trails contribute to the Top 10 ranking.
TripAdvisor.com is a subsidiary of Expedia.com and gets about 20 million unique visitors per month. A site survey showed that 43% of the TripAdvisor.com site visitors were seeking experiences that Millinocket offers, such as snowmobiling, white-water rafting and hiking.
Town officials hope that the ranking will give the area, which suffers unemployment twice the state average, a much-needed boost.