100 Years Ago: 1925
The annual Hokey Pokey fair given by the Athletic Association at Hallowell High school will be staged on Thursday and Friday evenings of this week. All indications are that the fair this year will eclipse any previous effort.
The four classes at the school each will hold important places in making the affair the success which at this time seems assured.
50 Years Ago: 1975
A man was injured, his car demolished, and a rural farmhouse extensively damaged in a spectacular single car crash on Route 9, about one quarter mile south of the Ridge Road intersection, shortly before 7:30 a.m., Wednesday.
Lisbon Police Officer Richard Fraser said Ensign Paul Becker, Star Route, Lisbon Falls, attached to Brunswick Naval Air Station, operating a 1961 foreign sports car southerly, had just completed passing a car. He had returned to the right lane, when he reportedly lost control of the small vehicle, which crossed the highway to the left, struck a snowbank, and continued end over end for 340 feet along a field. It became airborne striking and shearing off a large old cedar tree, estimated at two feet in diameter about 10 feet off the ground, spun around and, struck the living room section of a home owned and occupied by an elderly Lisbon Falls couple, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Penley and their grown son, causing damage estimated in excess of $1,000. No one in the home was injured.
Becker, in his mid 20’s suffered a bad scalp laceration and was transported to BNAS infirmary by Ace ambulance. The auto was removed by wrecker. Chief Ronald Turcotte, who was also at the scene, stated the accident was still under investigation. Becker’s wife was traveling behind him in a second vehicle but it was unknown if she witnessed the accident.
25 Years Ago: 2000
Central Maine Medical Center will give the public a peek at its plans for a cardiac surgery unit starting at 10 a.m. Monday in its conference center off High Street.
The public information session is required by the Department of Human Resources as part of its certificate of need process, said Chuck Gill, CMMC vice president for marketing. CMMC is seeking state permission to build a center that would perform up to 200 open heart surgeries and 300 angioplasties each year.
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