Houlton, ME

While the technicians are fixing the electron tube of the translator diode circuit on the transporter beam machine, you have a hour to spend in Houlton Maine. What do you have to see, do while here for that hour?

For starters you visit Cary Library on Main Street and are amazed at the large collection for a smaller town and realize this is not your typical library.  The children's library portion has an original fireplace used during Christmas story time and Cary Library has an innovative summer reading program to teach children the joy of reading books. Next you stop in to the Houlton Chamber of Commerce door to bulk up on information brochures for Aroostook County and Maine.  Looking at your watch you still have time to tour the Historical Museum and then trot up Main Street to see the famous Boy and the Leaky Boot in Pierce Park.  To the south east  of the stature, the modern Houlton Police and Fire Department complex is worth a peek.  But sensing time is marching by, you elect to head down to the Houlton Aphitheatre where McGill's Band plays through out the summer on Thursday nights behind Cary Library.  But what you are really after is some home made french fries to put vinegar and catsup on to enjoy with a pizza burger and soda from "The Bus". Kids walk by laughing, adults sit in the park talking or reading and you sense a safe, friendly community. Houlton's down town is a Victorian late 1800's brick, sandstone original jewel. Horses year's ago were watered in one end of Market Square and the fountain remains. The new Gateway Foot Bridge leads to a picnic area overlooking the Meduxnekeag River.  Oh Oh...The technician's home in on your GPS coordinates and you feel yourself start to materialize....destined for New York City.  The malfunction that caused the glitch and visit to Houlton Maine, Shiretown of Aroostook County is fixed..for now. You check the time on the Superior Court House clock as the teleportation process kicks in.You hope to return to get out to the golf course at Nickerson Lake and the Farmer's Museum in Littleton.  You would like to check out the Houlton Maine schools  or to head across the border into New Brunswick Canada. You can drive to Houlton too or if you are a private pilot or know one, glide into Houlton International Airport.

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The Images Show You The Fun. Imagine Hundreds Of Kids Sliding, Laughing, Competing In Different Age Groups For Prizes. Horse Drawn Sleigh Rides! Suppers, Gut Busting Breakfasts, Free Movies At The Temple Theatre, Free Skating, Hockey Games, Bon Fires..Sliding On Derby Hill, Wild Winter Foot Race, Snowsled Parade Thru Houlton..Okay..You Get The Idea That Being In Houlton Maine This Weekend Is Important! Have Soe Fun And Celebrate Winter This Weekend And Every First Weekend In Houlton Maine Because "The Moose Is Loose!"

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Bonfires, arena and outside skating, ice fishing derby, a snowmobile parade

thru town, free pass to movie theatre, a Moosestomper's Ball, baked bean supper, sled poker run, half dollar scramble, horse drawn sleigh rides, cross country skiing, winter games and sliding down "Derby Hill" .... Maine winters..we celebrate them, not hibernate.  The weather is predicted to be super..blue skies, crisp air and kids laughing as they scramble in the half dollar search in different age groups and play in other family fun games and events in Houlton Maine.  "The Moose Is Loose!" idea came from past Houlton town manager Alan Bean who was the commander of Loring Air Force Base in Limestone where the event first started. With the closure of LAB, the winter celebration moved to the Shiretown as the new venue.  Road signs are put up reminding all to be on the look out for local home grown fun. The best part? It's free and family oriented.  Kids know how to have fun and when they grow up they carry on the local community service event for the benefit of the entire area. Local motels have snowsledders coming in from local Linneus, Littleton, Island Falls and Oakfield Maine snowmobile clubs. With 3500 miles of snow sled trails to see Northern Maine and Aroostook County, this weekend..consider traveling to Houlton Maine. You don't have to have a snowsled to enjoy all the local events either. Drive to the sled club suppers and breakfast and visit the Farmer's Museum in Littleton for a specially planned weekend.

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You may have had a Walton's like up bringing, free of much tragedy or drama. 

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Marketing Houlton Maine Properties And Area Information

Living in a small Maine town with roughly 6700 people, not 6.7 million locals means new dollars put into the revenue stream is critical. 

     As a real estate broker, capturing videos of local events is critical to help showcase your area.  Not just property blah blah blah propaganda...but area flavor coverage.  A sizzling barbecue tastes better because you smell the grilling meat, anticipate the flavor when the steak chicken or fish is cooked to perfection, just the way you like it.  Show your area with the best imagery, the top video clips, better written crisp descriptive copy.  If your corner of the world has been blessed with many lakes like Houlton Maine, post blogs about it...illustrate those lakes.  You have the images used in marketing property so show them, don't keep them tucked away like Sunday best dinnerware. 

     If you town has an airport or a modern hospital do blogs on them so others know.  These are reasons folks come to your area either full or part time.  Industrial community members like Smith and Wesson, Ward Log Homes, Louisanna Pacific and Tate & Lyle create lots of local jobs.  And helping promote news or events within ouragricultural potato, dairy, christmas tree and grain farming operations is important.  Houlton Maine has local Houlton Farms Dairy, one of four dairies in the state...you want them to prosper and have customers to sell product to.  We have Houlton Water Companyso local power, water and sewer is handled by a community run, very involved utility headquartered right in our town.  Lower cost power means industrial power consumers have one more reason to locate to Houlton Maine.  Get details, images, video and stories about your local schools on line.  Help non profit organizations get on line in your area...do the websites for them if you must to help promote the area.  And lastly, promote also what you don't have.  In Northern Maine we are lucky to NOT have crime, NOT millions of people, NO pollution and miles and miles of unspoiled four season beauty to promote.  Maine...the state has a great public perception whether it is lobster and lighthouses on the rugged rock bound coast or rolling fertile farm fields to down hill ski slopes and hiking up Mt Katahdin, the state's highest mountain. 

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