(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

10 years ago – March 2, 1996

GLENBURN – Giggling, the third-grade girl walked down the long hallway of Glenburn Elementary School, continually trying to step on the feet of the seventh-grade boy walking beside her. Unbeknownst to the children, Cynthia Fowlow, a guidance counselor at the school, was looking on. Watching the scene play out, Fowlow could not have been happier.

“It was like they were brother and sister,” Fowlow said. “I thought it the neatest thing.”

Fowlow, in her first year at the school that houses kindergartners through eighth-graders, had imagined just such a scene when she came up with the idea of building a program that would promote interaction between the grade levels.

More than 400 pupils enrolled in second through eighth grades were broken up into 35 teams of a dozen pupils each last fall. Throughout the year the teams have gotten together for different projects.

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MILFORD – It’s still snowing as we park our cars at the end of the road near Sunkhaze Meadows in Milford. The snow is most welcome, since two weeks of bare ground after the January thaw have left our skis badly in need of exercise.

Mark Sweeney, manager of the Sunkhaze National Wildlife Refuge, leads the way to the Meadows, less than a mile away. In his element here in the outdoors, he glides along smoothly on his classic wooden skis. We’ve explored the area before, in all seasons, but this is our first winter trip together as the recently formed Friends of Sunkhaze. Gary Drinkwater, charter member of the Friends, says this is his first ski trip this season. Jesse Vollick and his father, Rick, the refuge’s fire management officer, ski like seasoned bog runners.

Some people think that the only wilderness left in Maine is up north, but this refuge is less traveled than many areas in northern Maine.

25 years ago – March 2, 1981

OLD TOWN – Old Town’s community development office has embarked on an active and imaginative campaign to attract industry to the city’s spanking new industrial park, the community development director said.

“We’re looking for new blood to come in and provide primary jobs in Old Town,” said David Mercier, the city’s community development director. Mercier said the city’s development office has recently placed advertisements soliciting inquiries about the industrial park in various professional and trade journals.

In addition to the ads, Mercier said, the city has begun the process of mailing solicitation letters to 5,000 to 10,000 companies that might be interested in expanding their operations into Old Town’s industrial park.

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ORONO – Fifteen Scouts from Orono-Veazie Troop 48 have returned from a seven-day vacation in New York City with Scoutmasters Rick Violette and Bryan Newman.

Scouts visited the United Nations, Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center, Grand Central Station, Kennedy Airport, Bronx Zoo and Aquarium, and Museum of Natural History. They toured the American Stock Exchange, Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center, attended Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and visited Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel.

Scouts taking the trip were Donny Hillman, Chris Roy, Scott Ireland, Brian Ireland, Mark Cemodanovs, Scott Dembowski, John Crocker, Scott Duplessis, Tommy Myers, Mike Parady, Krin Ellingsen, Rick Hadley, Ralph Tredwell, Chris Thibodeau, Pat Sanger and Senior Patrol Leader Rich Murphy.

50 years ago – March 2, 1956

BRADLEY – The Sunday Church School of the Bradley Baptist Church held an S-O-S party in the church vestry with 60 in attendance. The ticket of admittance was an item of used clothing, bedding or yard goods, thus the code S-O-S, meaning share our surplus.

The large quantity of items collected will be sent to Germany by the ladies of the Women’s Missionary Society and will be distributed by the Baptist minister to needy German refugees who have fled from behind the Iron Curtain.

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HAMPDEN – Mrs. Andrew Banning of Bangor reviewed the book “Seven Years in Tibet” by Heinrich Harrer when the Miss and Mrs. Club met at the Hampden Congregational Church.

100 years ago – March 2, 1906

BUCKSPORT – Finson and Brown, who have the contract with the Buzzard Bay Ice Co. to furnish them ice from Silver Lake, received word this morning that they had chartered several light-draught vessels to come here to load. Finson and Brown have arrangements all made so they can commence putting the ice into the first vessel to arrive three hours after she is sighted in the narrows.

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BUCKSPORT – Gilmore and Waters of Bangor, who have had lumbering operations on the lot known as the Abram Lowell farm at Bucksport Center the past winter, have completed their work and have landed on the bank of the Penobscot River more than a million feet of first-class pine and spruce saw logs.

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BANGOR – At last the longed-for home for the three Bangor lodges of Odd Fellows is to become a reality. Penobscot Lodge Number 7 decided to accept the proposition offered by John R. Graham through Louis Kirstein and Sons, real estate broker, and work on the building will commence almost at once.

The building will be erected on the lot now occupied by the Grand Central stables on Central Street and will have 40 feet more frontage than last planned. The building will be of concrete and will be three stories high. Stores will occupy the ground floor and the Odd Fellows will occupy the third. The plans for the second floor are not completed, but it is thought that a club room or rooms for the Bangor Odd Fellows will occupy a major portion of this floor.

The plans for the proposed building were made by W.E. Mansur, and as is always the case with Mansur’s work, they are precisely what is needed under the circumstances.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin