The Bar Harbor Record puts up this complaint as winter draws near: “For a community as large and with such business interests as Bar Harbor, we are singularly shut up to ourselves in the winter. Soon there will be no Sunday boat, and then the only way to get out of town from Saturday afternoon until the following Monday forenoon – a full day and a half – will be by driving or chartering a vessel. It would be interesting to know how many Maine communities of Bar Harbor’s size and importance are entirely shut off from mails or railroad travel for so long a time.”

50 years ago, 1957

• The Christmas decorations in the Lewiston business district have for the most part been completed. Workmen were putting up the large arches late last night and early today. One of these already has been completed at the end of the North Bridge.

• The Auburn Public Library joins libraries all across the nation in the observance of National Book Week, November 16 to 23. Book Week at the Auburn Public Library means that from Saturday to Saturday, hundreds of new books are on exhibition at the library building.

• The Maine Central Railroad’s Bangor-Calais branch line will run its last passenger train Saturday. The Public Utilities Commission recently granted permission to discontinue the passenger service.

25 years ago, 1982

NEW YORK – A tentative agreement was reached Tuesday night to end the 57-day-old National Football League strike, the longest and costliest walkout in sports history. The season is to resume Sunday, limited to nine games with an expanded and juggled 16-team playoff format.

Paul Martha, a former NFL running back and now a lawyer who served as mediator in the final round of negotiations, said the tentative contract totals $1.28 billion over five years.

The nine-game scheduled will be the shortest in the NFL’s 63-year history. Only 10 games were played each season from 1943-45 because of World War II, and at least 11 games have been played every other year.