100 Years Ago: 1918

Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Marks of Monmouth and their son, Harland Marks took an auto trip Monday to Harpswell, where they will remain for two weeks. They were accompanied by Miss Hazel Davis, who will be their guest for a few days.

50 Years Ago: 1968

Woodbury Brackett, city manager of Auburn, just came back from sunny California, where he attended a meeting of the International City Managers Association, of which he was president in 1960-61. He had been a member of the board of directors for eight years, the longest of any member of the board. Brackett said the board discussed such topics as the organization of a new budget for the association and did an in-depth study of goals.

25 Years Ago: 1993

The bids for construction of a 90-bed veterans nursing home will be requested by Aug. 9 and the dirt will fly on the site in Paris before the end of September, according to the architect for Maines? ?Veterans Homes Corp. The groundbreaking project was announced before a crowd of about 100 people at an informational meeting at the Norway Legion Hall. It was called by Rep. Rick Bennett to convince the Veterans Administration to place a nursing home in South Paris. Bennett noted the reason for the meeting was that he and others had received a lot of calls inquiring about the status of the nursing home. The $7.6 million veterans home is expected to be completed between December 1994 and February 1995, said Jeff Ackor, chief executive director of Maine Veterans Homes.

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