•Many towns in Maine boast of their smart old people. Winthrop Budget boasts of E. M. Clark of Winthrop, 95 years old, straight and smart, but does no work of any kind. North Monmouth has a smart one 92 years old, in the person of George Fairbanks. He is yet cleaning and repairing clocks and watches and does a satisfactory job. As he walks the street anyone would call him a man of 65 to 70.

•A pair of big white eagles, flying low so that hundreds saw them clearly, passed over the city of Westbrook last week.

50 Years Ago, 1956

Presque Isle – The Federal Market News Service tonight reported practically no demand for potatoes in the present commercial market.

The agency’s office in the heart of northern Maine’s potato empire said only 88 carload lots of spuds had been shipped from the region so far this season. The figure was the lowest since 1951. At the same time last year, 306 carloads of Maine tubers had rolled to market.

The service said current “very light” demand resulted from ample potato supplies in Pennsylvania western New York, Long Island and southern New England.

25 Years Ago, 1981

Until now there has been no alternative for those people who find it difficult to continue living in a completely independent manner and yet do not need nursing care.

William Gillis, administrator of Clover Manor, Auburn, thinks he has found an answer in living arrangements for this “in-between” group. This would be a little variation to congregate housing for those persons who fit somewhere between going into a nursing home and being able to live in an apartment.

Gillis hopes to fill this gap through the Clover Living Center, a new housing concept designed to meet the needs of individuals who find it difficult or impossible to live in a completely independent environment.