100 Years Ago: 1924
The Kennebec River is open to navigation from Augusta to the sea. The ice above Merrymeeting Bay broke up Saturday afternoon, and jammed at Swan Island Saturday night. The jam broke Sunday, and the ice floated on the ebb tide. Last year the ice went out on April 13.
50 Years Ago: 1974
Mrs. Robert Clifford is opening her home at 14 Nelke Place, Lewiston, on Tuesday for a tea honoring Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Joseph Brennan of Portland.
Invited to pour are Mrs. Paul Murphy, Mrs. Paul Dube, Mrs. Paul Dionne, Mrs. Robert Grieshaber, Mrs. Gerard Granger, Mrs. John Beliveau, Mrs. Thomas Delehanty Jr. and Mrs. Richard Hebert.
Guests are invited to drop in and meet the candidate between ten o’clock and noon.
25 Years Ago: 1999
Three years ago, Katrina Bugarski accepted her diploma as a graduating member of the Edward Little High School class of 1996. She came to Auburn as an exchange student and lived with an elementary school teacher . When Burgaski went back to her home country, the two kept in touch via email.
This week Bugarski, now 21, spends her nights perched in her family’s Belgrade home, watching bombs drop a short distance away.
“I have a good view of most of the attacks,” said Bugarski, via email about NATO air strikes on the Yougslavian capital. “Why is that good? Because I need to see it for myself. I want to remember it and not forget. It’s only when I hear and see, I can realize the misery of the whole situation.”
The first few days of bombing were confined mainly to nighttime, but Bugarski said bombing now starts earlier as the days go by.
“The moment when the sirens go on is the moment I stop my breath,” she said. “I get awful feelings and just listen. Yesterday was so disturbing because during the sirens you could hear parents screaming their children’s names and calling them to come home. Kids do not know what is happening, and they are so confused. After a minute or so, everything stops and it’s like in the cowboy movies when they show those towns in a desert, where only wind is making noise. I don’t know why, but at that time, the dogs are silent and the sparrows on my trees just sit there without their song.”
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