100 Years Ago: 1921

Merton Knowlton, of Livermore, has one of the best looking potato fields around here, an eighth of an acre near the depot already in blossom. He is looking for a meal from them on the Fourth of July. They were planted on May 10th.

50 Years Ago: 1971

The State Highway Department is continuing work in preparing the North Bridge roadway for repaving. The sections of the outer wheel track both westbound and eastbound have had the blacktop layer removed, exposing the concrete and wire mesh reinforcing beneath. On both the upriver and downriver sides of the bridge the state crews did considerable patching earlier as traffic tossed out the hot-top. Now this has all been removed and it appears that work will be getting underway also on repairing the concrete curbing along the bridge edges. The blacktop wearing surface on the bridge has been  deteriorating for about the last year.

25 Years Ago: 1996

A $400 grant has been given to the Treat Gallery at Bates College by the Maine Commission on the Arts and the Humanities for an exhibition of weathervanes made and used in Maine during the 18th and 19th centuries and for a photographic collection of weathervanes.

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