10 years ago – March 14, 1992

(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

BANGOR – Former Superior Court Justice Eugene Beaulieu was inducted Friday as Bangor’s second full-time U.S. magistrate judge.

Aided by his daughters, Diane Stowe and Nicole Beaulieu, the magistrate judge took his robe from a coat stand placed in the courtroom and slipped the garment on, generating applause.

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BANGOR – Connie Collins, president of Symphony Women and Friends, presented BSO general manager Robert Bahr with a check for $5,000 in sponsoring the fourth classical concert this season. The concert, which will include works by Beethoven, Boccherini, Bloch and Strauss, will be held Sunday at the Maine Center for the Arts, and will feature cellist Leslie Parnas.

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BANGOR – The Bangor High School boys basketball team will be going after the school’s first boys state championship since 1959 when the Rams take on South Portland Saturday at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Bangor also won state titles in 1955, 1947 and 1923.

25 years ago – March 14, 1977

BANGOR – Phillips-Strickland House will unveil its facilities to the public tomorrow in an open house 2-4 p.m. Currently there are 43 residents at the facility.

Herbert L. Fowle is executive director. Mrs. Arnold L. Veague is chairman of the building committee, and Leon F. Higgins II president of the board. Mrs. Frederick W. Whittaker is chairman of admissions, and Franklin W. Eaton treasurer.

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VEAZIE – At their annual town meeting next Saturday, Veazie residents will be asked to act on $400,690 in recommended expenditures for 1977. Polls will be open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. for voting on town officials.

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BANGOR – Few basketballs have been so intently watched at the Bangor Auditorium as the one that Karen Downes threw up from the right side of the key with 15 seconds left in the schoolgirl game there Saturday night. Bangor’s Lady Rams had battled back to their first Eastern Maine Class A championship with a 54-53 victory over the Mt. Blue Cougars.

50 years ago – March 14, 1952

BANGOR – The City Council committee on public works yesterday directed that a study be made into “alternative methods” of rubbish disposal in Bangor as step one in a move to eliminate the Essex Street dump.

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ORONO – Dean of Men John Stewart of the University of Maine became a soda jerk for a brief time yesterday after the University Store Co. bid $23.25 for his services at the Good Will Chest auction. The dean’s customers included Kathy Wasson of Falmouth and Sylvia Farris of Union.

100 years ago – March 14, 1902

BREWER – The Brewer City Council held a special session Thursday night and took action upon the bridge matter in the way of a resolve covering the next step in logical order in the process of obtaining a free bridge.

Mayor Hutchings said he believed the sentiment of the people of Brewer was for no delay in the matter of a free bridge. The popular vote had been almost nine for, to one against the idea. The resolution said, in part:

Said petition also to contain a prayer for said notice to said bridge company and to the County Commissioners of Penobscot County by the said Chief Justice and also any and all other necessary prayers and everments as provided in said Chapter 360.

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OLD TOWN – The Republican caucuses were held Thursday night.

Even the most sanguine of the Republicans admit that while they probably will win, it will be only after the hardest kind of work. The Democrats are the happiest they have been for years, and say that they are not only going to elect a mayor, but are going to carry every ward. As it looks from the road, it will be a tug of war, in which all the fine art of campaign experts would be brought into play, also considerable money.