Our Maine Street's Aroostook Issue 10 : Fall 2011 | Page 8

Our Thoughts
from the desk of the magazine staff

Welcome to the tenth issue
of Our Maine Street Magazine. We
continue to be thankful for the
support of our readers, advertisers
and retail locations. Without you
we wouldn’t be able to continue to
create these issues about Aroostook
County. Last issue we had a
misprint with our advertiser thank
you list, and several advertisers were
accidentally omitted. We want to
be sure to properly recognize them,
so thank you to: Red River Camps,
Sitel Corporation, St. John Valley
Pharmacy, Tang Palace, The County
Federal Credit Union, University
of Maine at Fort Kent, University
of Maine at Presque Isle, Valley
Satellite and Washburn Food Mart.

When we started Our Maine
Street Magazine back in July of
2009, we had plans to include
all Aroostook County pieces and
eventually expand to consistently
include the neighboring regions and
counties as well. Since then things
have changed as our core players
changed, and we decided that we
would really focus on showcasing to
the state, the nation and yes even to
those in The County, the amazing
things that Aroostook has to offer.
The observant among you will have
noticed some small changes to the
cover over the last several issues as
we dropped our subtitle to make
the words “Aroostook County”
more and more prominent with
each issue. Why have we been
doing this? With more and more

magazines on the stand with the
word ‘Maine’ on them we wanted
to be sure that everyone knew what
made us different. We remember on
a consistent basis that Maine doesn’t
stop at Bangor. It is with this in
mind, and after consulting several of
our retail outlets, contributors and
subscribers, that we have decided to
make a change to the way our cover
will look in the future. Instead
of the familiar Our Maine Street,
Aroostook County our covers will
now say Our Maine Street’s Aroostook
with the word Aroostook taking the
spotlight. We feel this slight change
in the title will help us stand out and
make it very clear what is important
to us.

To the left you can see how
our current cover styling looks on
our current issue and the same issue
with the new style titles premiering
in January.

This issue is jam-packed.
From trips down memory lane with
“Route 161,” “Aroostook County
Potato Harvest,” “AVRR Restoring
the Past” and “Richards Tree Farm”
to current events such as “Ride
Aroostook” and “Prime Athletes;”
there’s something for everyone.
And don’t forget to check out the
rest of the articles as well.