Compiled by Susan McKelliget
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75 Years Ago: Aug. 9, 1935
The coming week will be the last week of the E.R.A. After next week all federal-local relief projects will be handled through the W.P.A. with the U.S. Employment Service supplying the labor and the local department heads supervising the job.
Percy J. Doyle of Washington avenue, local truckman, sustained two fractured ribs and possible other internal injuries early Tuesday afternoon when he fell from a truck in the freight yard of the Boston & Maine railroad. He was unloading steel from a car and transporting it to the new junior high school project. He was taken to the office of Dr. John J. Hartigan and later removed to his home.
Young Gerard Twomey (10), of 20 Haverhill street, Shawsheen village, probably owes his life to the presence of mind of his chum, Walter Cassidy (11), of 40 York street, who helped him from the Shawsheen river after he had fallen in while at play. It has been learned the Twomey boy was standing on the Shawsheen river bank, not far from the Spa, playing with two ropes that were hanging from a tree. He was fully dressed and he took a rope in each hand and started to swing over the water. While flying through the air, Twomey lost his grip and fell into eight feet of water. Observing Twomey struggling in the water, Cassidy, also fully dressed, dove into the stream as his chum was going down for the first time. He reached Twomey and swam beneath him and helped him to shore by pushing him through the water.
50 Years Ago: Aug. 11, 1960
A public hearing on the seizure of the John L. Noyes property on Lovejoy Road for a school site may be held in two weeks. The selectmen, concerned that the law may require the hearing because the land is agricultural, would not sign the order of taking prepared for them by Counsel Fredric S. O'Brien.
The organization of a "Pee Wee Football League" will be discussed at the Youth Center tonight at 8. Anyone interested in this subject will be welcome at the session, which will discuss the aims of the league, and the mechanics of working it out. High School Football Coach Richard Collins called the meeting.
Photo: Duck, Boy, Duck — Don Cochrane's doing a pretty good job of ducking as Bill Fyler, right, throws a right during the Ballardvale boxing matches last week. Bill Dalton is the referee.
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25 Years Ago: Aug. 8, 1985
The first private resident in Andover to own a satellite dish, Loreto Martinelli, 3 Marigold Lane, requested a special permit from Zoning Board of Appeals last Thursday night. Abutter Roger Young, Patricia Circle, informed the Z.B.A. of his objections to the disc. "It's not a pleasant sight to see a 16-foot white dish from your kitchen window. I consider it a distraction and unpleasant to look at."
A Reading funeral director who last year tried unsuccessfully to convert a South Main Street nursery school into a funeral home now plans to renovate a Pearson street residence into a funeral home, the Planning Board learned this week. Paul Bekkenhius, of the Edgerly and Bessom Funeral Home in Reading, has signed a sale agreement for a house at 33 Pearson St., Attorney Andrew Caffrey told the planners Tuesday night.
The Andover Ecumenical Peace Group held a silent peace vigil Monday night in front of the Old Town Hall to mourn the loss of so many lives by the dropping of the first atomic bomb and to pray that nuclear weapons will never be used again. Nearly 150 people from Andover and the Merrimack Valley participated in the march, which lasted from 7:45 to 8:45 p.m., walking single file and in silence, holding candles and carrying signs.
James D. Doherty of Doherty Insurance Inc., 21 Elm St., has been elected state national director of the Independent Insurance Agents of Massachusetts, the state's leading agents' group. Doherty was sworn into office at IIAM's annual convention in Newport, R.I.
