100 years ago, 1916
Grand Army veterans will be admitted without charge to the production of “Fighting for France” to be presented at Music Hall the last three days of next week. These are actual war pictures. On Thursday afternoon Coast Artillery and staff officers will be special guests of Manager Bibber.

50 years ago, 1966
The Poland Spring Job Corps Center for Women, to be the largest in the nation and scheduled to be officially open for business soon, is currently a “beehive of activity.” Hustling and bustling has replaced the sedate pace at the famed hotel resort where the first 150 of the more than 1,000 girls are expected to begin converging shortly after April 1. Col. Sol Ernst, Job Corps Center Director, is pleased with the progress being made in preparing for the first arrivals, all to be young women between 16 and 21. years of age. Riccar Inn, also the home of WMTW-TV, Channel 8, is to serve as the Job Corps Center headquarters where some 100 key employees are currently laboring long hours getting ready for the official opening next month.

25 years ago, 1991
School Department maintenance workers are seeing red these days — in the form of stickers they’re attaching to trash bags earmarked for paper recycling at Pathways Inc. The stickers distinguish these bags from the rest of the School Department trash, which is trucked to Mid-Maine Waste Action Corp. for incineration. The paper is being separated from other waste at the Chamberlain and Merrill Hill buildings and the bus garage, where a pilot recycling program has been under way for the past month. It has gotten favorable reviews from School Department Business Manager Jude Cyr and Maintenance Director Joseph Lepage, who both say it’s been fairly easy to implement. Cyr estimated the recycling has cut the material in the offices’ waste stream by about one-third.

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