(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

10 years ago – April 25, 1992

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Three straight state record times were turned in by members of the Canoe City Swim Club from Old Town and Mount Desert Island Swim Team here Thursday to highlight their action at the YMCA Nationals championship swim meet.

Old Town’s Trina Smith swam the 200-yard backstroke in 2 minutes, 13.58 seconds to cap the day’s run of state records in the trials.

The first to start the record run was Nellie Fox of MDI with a time of 2:14:42. Canoe City’s Shannon Smith bettered that mark with a time of 2:13:63 before Trina Smith’s swim.

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BANGOR – Michael W. Aube of Bangor has been named by Gov. John R. McKernan to replace Lynn Wachtel, commissioner of Economic and Community Development, who is returning to Massachusetts.

After a sometimes stormy three-year tenure, Wachtel is leaving Maine for a position in the administration of Gov. William Weld of Massachusetts. Aube, 41, is president of the Eastern Maine Development Corp., a Bangor-based nonprofit organization that works to promote development in a six-county region.

25 years ago – April 25, 1977

ORONO – Serious obstacles stand in the way of revival of Maine’s maritime industries, two speakers said at the Maine Resource Heritage Conference at the University of Maine at Orono.

Maine’s assistant attorney general for marine resources told the group of about 40 people Friday that bias toward national interests rather than what is good for the parts threatens to destroy Maine’s fishing industry. Edward Bradley cited recent hearings on the herring management plan, which has been developed as a result of the 200-mile limit law. The federal view stresses development of the offshore yield without any consideration for onshore yield, which is where Maine fishermen work.

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ORONO – One of the many craftsmen from across the state who will be exhibiting Saturday and Sunday, April 30-May 1, at the University of Maine’s annual Spring Crafts Fair is Elizabeth Prior of Unity, a silversmith.

A junior art major at the Orono campus, Miss Prior will exhibit her own jewelry designs at the fair, which will be held at Hilltop Conference Center. For the first time, the fair is being held indoors with music by the Stairwell String Band, a student contradance band, and folk dancing.

50 years ago – April 25, 1952

BREWER – Mrs. Evelyn Green’s collection of 170 dolls, which has been on display at the Brewer First Congregational Church vestry the past few days, will be held over for another day by popular request, and will be exhibited from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Approximately 200 attended on Thursday afternoon and evening.

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BANGOR – City Manager and Mrs. Julian H. Orr were made honorary members of the Y-Teens in an impressive candle-lighting ceremony Thursday evening held at the Mother-Father-Daughter banquet of the Bangor Y-Teens at the YWCA.

The dinner meeting was attended by more than 150 and was one of the features of the National YWCA week observance.

Jacqueline Doughty was toastmistress, and there were toasts to the fathers and the mothers and appropriate responses. Each mother was presented with a flower, while the fathers were given ball-point pens.

100 years ago – April 25, 1902

BANGOR – Dull days lately in the port of Bangor, few vessels coming or going. There have been no arrivals of importance, except steamers, for several days. On Wednesday, several bay coasters sailed, and Thursday’s departures consisted of the barge Epharta for Philadelphia; Schooner George E. Walcott for Newport News and Schooner Hope Haynes for New York, latter with lumber by the Ashland Mfg. Co.

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BANGOR – On Friday night, in the Opera House, Bangor people will be entertained with one of those glittering and pretty and tuneful extravaganzas for which Edward E. Rice is famed. In years past Mr. Rice has given us “Evangeline,” “1492,” “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Adonis,” all of which have left with us sweet and champagney memories, and now he comes with a military band, troops of pretty girls, good singers and funny men.

Compiled by Mark Haskell