Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services, Caribou Field Office (Aroostook County)

The claims route the State publishes runs through the Bureau of Veterans' Services, and one of the Bureau's field offices sits in this county: the Caribou Field Office, 14 Access Highway, Suite 5, Caribou, ME 04736, phone (207) 492-1173, fax (207) 492-1175, email [email protected], office hours Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Bureau's locations page names service areas only where it says so, and Caribou's is not one of them, so an Aroostook County veteran outside the Caribou area should call the office rather than assume it is theirs. The county's own site was not readable live: aroostook.me.us answers 403 behind a Cloudflare challenge that neither curl nor automated Chrome could pass on the read day. Its pages were read through dated Internet Archive captures instead. The site's menus - its appointed and elected officers, departments (administration, deeds, district attorney, EMA, facilities, IT, human resources, probate, sheriff, treasurer, unorganized territory) and information pages (agendas and minutes, budgets, county tax, public records, property tax, tax abatement appeals) - name no veteran page of any kind, and the county's own EMA, which runs a separate site (aroostookema.com), names no veteran programme on it either. The county's two registries of deeds publish coverage areas and contact details, and no discharge-recording line on any page the captures hold. The county commissioners' and jail bodies' meeting and budget records the Archive holds - 63 PDFs running through the March 3, 2026 Jail Study Commission packet, the board's meetings whole from January to September 2025 and, in this sweep's window, the October 15, 2025 agenda and packet, the January 6, 2026 addendum and the February 18, 2026 packet, with no minutes file for any later board meeting, and, from the later crawls, the Jail Advisory Committee's minutes for October 21, 2025 and the Jail Study Commission's for December 9, 2025 and February 5, 2026, with agenda-packets for those meetings and for the committees' November 18, 2025 and March 3, 2026 meetings - were read in full and carry no veteran item. The board's remaining window files are neither archived nor fetchable live - the county's own 2025 schedule lists November 19 and December 17, 2025 meetings and its Agendas & Minutes page lists the October 30, November 5 and 17, December 4, 5, 12, 23 and 29, 2025 and January 29, February 5 and 6, 2026 special meetings and the March 6 special commissioners' meeting, the March 12 Finance Committee organizational meeting and the March 18 Caribou meeting, for none of which the Archive holds files - so those two months, the specials, the January 6 and February 18 files beyond the addendum and packet, March to September 2026 and the year's minutes are unread; the county's commissioners' office, 144 Sweden Street, Suite 1, Caribou, (207) 493-3318, is the office to ask. The sheriff's office is at 25 School Street, Houlton, (207) 532-3471.