25 years ago: Barbara Talmadge, community relations liason for the Canon Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open, was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Portland Division of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce. Talmadge was a member of the 1986 GHO Executive Committee of the Greater Hartford Jaycees, managers of the Greater Hartford Open.

25 years ago: The Water Pollution Control Authority in Cromwell asked the town to undertake the entire Coles Road sewer line, from Route 72 to Shunpike Road, at an estimated cost of $3.1 million. The part of the line went through Route 9 and through the right-of-way for the Central Connecticut Expressway.