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Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Bus Service, Presque Isle, 1957

"Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Bus Service, Presque Isle, 1957 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society Description In 1957, Bangor and…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"… her dad drove the bus so she would ride his bus for a little ways before an Ashland bus would pick her up from there."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"In Scarborough 350: Linking the Past and The Present Margery Miliken tells about taking the bus to Dunstan School in the 1920s."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Exhibits

"Exhibits Staples brothers waiting for the bus, Swan's Island, ca. 1955Swan's Island Historical Society In creating our exhibits, especially…"

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Windham Historical Society

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"… most controversial issues in the 1980s was school bus transportation. Following a series of meetings, the voters of Guilford approved the purchase…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… local entrepreneur, noted for bringing the first bus system to Bar Harbor, recognized that there was a growing market for a decidedly upscale…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… the money we had we walk to school had no such bus I lived down St. George road then and was went to school it’s no longer there used to be on…"

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Seashore Trolley Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"J: You had said something about a bus coming around. S: Yes, when my mother worked she used to ride on the back of a truck that would come and pick…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"The first school bus was purchased that year. In 1952 at a special town meeting on December 26, Islesboro residents voted unanimously to accept “the…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Transportation was now by privately-owned school bus; L. J. York owned a bus that brought students from Mosher and Perham Hills and Wesley Gardner…"

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… at Lincoln and transported the rest of the way by bus and taxi. The washout also detoured the freight and passengers being transported from…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"High school students had to pay to ride the local bus for some time before it became free, but even so it was a much needed improvement."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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