99 Years Ago – June 4, 1925
First open-air band concert — The first open-air band concert given by the Juvenile Bank took place on the B. & A. Lawn. There was a large number of listeners and cars surrounding the grounds, and the lawn was also thronged with people, outside of those who came in cars, many of them from quite a distance. The selections given were finely rendered, and elicited much applause, this being particularly true of the cornet solos given by Harry Downing, 16 year son of Mr. Ned Downing. The music rendered by the boys indicated that they have made remarkable progress, and the boys’ band was an institution which ought to be encouraged in the most generous manner by all public spirited citizens.
50 Years Ago – June 5, 1974
Presque Isle man became a doctor — A Presque Isle man was among 150 persons to graduate from Medical School Sunday, May 19. D. Merrill Hersey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hersey of Presque Isle, received his M.D. Degree from Tufts Medical School. He graduated from Presque Isle High School in 1966 and attended Gordon College and the University of Maine at Presque Isle before transferring to the Orono Campus where he received his BA degree in 1970. At Orono, he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi national honor societies. He attended Rutgers Medical School where he received his Masters Degree of Medical Science before transferring to Tufts for his last two years of medical school.
Wildcat golf team was tenth in state match — Coach Harry Buzzell’s Presque Isle High School golf team hung up a total score of 364 at the state championship event held at the Penobscot Valley Country Club, Thursday, May 30. The title went to the Lewiston team with 327 points. Matt Stevens turned in a fine score of 76. In the front nine, Stevens parred just two holes, taking double bogies on the second and fifth and bogies on the fourth and sixth. But the young Presque Isle performer came up with birdies on the third and eighth holes and shot a par 36 on the back nine to give him his total of 76. Other scorers for the Wildcats were Greg Bishop with 92, Bud Johnson 97, and Brian Carmichael 99. Fort Fairfield High School was 14th with 407.
25 Years Ago – June 9, 1999
On the board — Three Central Aroostook area basketball players were honored Saturday at a ceremony at the Aroostook Center mall in Presque Isle. Skip Chappelle, the events director for Bangor Daily News Enterprises, presented commemorative mugs to Shane Bradstreet of Central Aroostook, Brianne Bubar of Fort Fairfield and Brianna Blanchard of Presque Isle, in recognition of making the 1999 Eastern Maine tournament all-star teams. The R. H. Foster/Mobil High School Basketball Wall of Fame, which included the names of all the all-tourney players from 1946, was displayed at the local mall from mid-May.Golf tourney raised funds for cancer — Winners in six different divisions were decided at the annual Aroostook County Cancer Golf Tournament held Saturday at Presque Isle Country Club. Nineteen four-person teams vied for top honors in the scramble-format event, with $4,500 raised for American Cancer Society research and to local programs. Team champions, along with their winning score, were as follows: Women’s Division I, Alexis Madore, Sandra Carter, Carol Ann Hall and Ursula Johnston, 74; Division II, Francine Soucy, Joan Michaud, Jean Dobson and Kathy Maynard, 71; Division III, Sue Nickerson, Helen Maynard, Carol Adams and Kathy Levesque, 80. Men’s Division I, Dan Hotham, Bud Scott, Paul Levesque and Dave Steele, 62; Division II, Harold Clark, Paul Cariani, Cal Deschene and Jack Ireland, 60; Division III, Tony Roy, Shawn Clark, Steve Chandler and Mark Sotomayor, 66.
