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(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

10 years ago – Sept. 4, 1993

GLENBURN – Rebecca Roy has received the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest in Girl Scouting. She is a sophomore at Stone Hill College in Massachusetts.

For her Gold Award project, Roy identified resources for programs for children within a six-county area and related them to the badges in the Brownie Scout program. The result was a booklet, “52 Excellent Adventures for Brownie Girl Scout,” 300 copies of which will be distributed to Brownie Girl Scout troop leaders.

Roy is completing a three-year term on the Communications Committee of the National Board of Girl Scouts of the USA and was the 1992 recipient of the Abnaki Girl Scout College Scholarship. She is the daughter of Denise and Randel Roy.

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BANGOR – The ticker tape that brought firefighters at Hose 5 to their feet whenever a box alarm went off still works.

It’s only been a week, after all, since the denizens of the State Street firehouse moved to their new digs near Eastern Maine Technical College.

And in a year’s time, if all goes as planned, the long-unused fire bell will ring again when the not-quite-century-old building reopens in its new incarnation – the Hose 5 Fire Museum.

The walls of the newly emptied structure, built in 1897, echoed the voices of city officials, fire department representatives, retired firefighters and museum board members putting it on display for the local news media as museum President Richard Brooks signed his name on the lease.

The bell and the mechanism that links it to the box alarms will be put in working order. The chute in the roof through which hay for the horses once entered an upstairs storage area will be restored.

A 1930 McCann truck, already fully restored and functional, will find a home at the firehouse. And if firefighters in the city’s working stations are called to a fire, museum visitors will know about it when the ticker tape comes to life.

25 years ago – Sept. 4, 1978

OLD TOWN – The resignation of the police chief and action concerning a health center in Old Town will be discussed at the city council meeting.

Jack Palo, chief of police in Old Town for the last two years, resigned last week to take a post as chief of police in Rhode Island. The city manager will ask the council how they would like to fill the vacant position.

A medical care committee, set up by the city council, has been talking with St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor about a plan to open a clinic in Old Town, staffed by a doctor from the hospital.

50 years ago – Sept. 4, 1953

BANGOR – The officers and directors of the Congregation Beth Israel announced that Cantor Judah Sugarman will be cantor and mohel for the synagogue and has already arrived in Bangor to take up his duties.

Cantor Sugarman came to Bangor from New York City and is residing at 47 Essex St. In New York he officiated at the Jacob Schiff Center where he was cantor of the Beth Hamadroah Hagadol. Prior to coming to the United States in 1951, Cantor Sugarman had been associated with many of the large congregations in London.

Cantor Sugarman will chant the Selichos services Saturday at midnight at the Beth Israel Synagogue. Rabbi A.H. Freedman will deliver the Selichos sermon.

100 years ago – Sept. 4, 1903

BANGOR – Everybody interested in the great yacht races which ended on Thursday with the third consecutive defeat of the Shamrock – and this means practically everybody in Bangor and its vicinity – was both surprised and gratified at the prompt and efficient bulletin service offered by the Bangor Daily News.

It is a safe assertion that at least 5,000 people pass through Exchange Street daily and it is equally safe to say that nine out of every 10 stopped before the NEWS bulletin board to read the latest and authentic information of the contests.

The prompt bulletins of the News were made possible by the excellent service of the International Wireless Telegraph Co. for which B.K. Shepard of this city is the representative for Maine.

From 10 to 20 minutes after leaving the company’s stations on the New Jersey coast, the messages were displayed upon the bulletin board of the Bangor Daily News.

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BREWER – About the best thing which has happened to Brewer for some time is the Britton Leather Co., the new concern which, as stated in the NEWS some time ago, has bought the plant known as the Smiley tannery and will enlarge it, creating an establishment which will eventually employ from 75 to 100 men the year ’round.

About $50,000 in new buildings and equipment will be expended at once. The present buildings will be razed and additional stories and new building constructed, and new machinery added as the concern will use a different process.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin