YESTERDAY

As reported in the Bangor Daily News

10 years ago — February 9, 1984

Glenburn taxpayers Monday approved plowing and maintainence of eight camp roads. Voters favored warrant articles at a special election under which eight camp roads on Pushaw Lake will be viewed as public easements and will receive winter plowing and maintainence service from the town. The vote ends a longstanding dispute over camp road maintainence and settles a class action suit against the town filed by members of the Glenburn Lake Association.

The Bangor City Council was briefed Monday on a legal tool that could be offered to downtown property owners to provide for management in the core area and on downtown improvements, past, present and future.

25 years ago — February 9, 1969

Bangor City Council at its regular meeting Monday night replaced the city’s ordinance covering granting of franchises for cable television rights here, then tabled an order calling for a 10-year exclusive franchise for a new local corporation.

Brewer City Council Chairman Arthur Doe indicated Sunday that municipal officials plan to take a hard line in salary negotiations with teachers. The teachers’ proposal, Doe said, amounts to almost half Brewer’s anticipated 15-mill tax increase. He said the council should limit teachers to an average 5 percent wage increase, the same raise proposed for Brewer’s other municipal employees.

50 years ago — February 9, 1944

Financially Bangor is well up in the “blue chip” class, it was demonstrated last night when the City Council found it possible to borrow money for less than the federal government could, on temporary loans. In fact, the council placed some $207,000 of Bangor’s surplus funds in federal temporary loan certificates at less than 1 percent interest and accepted a combined bid from three commercial banks of the city for $500,000 in temporary loans at an interest rate of .040 percent.