25 years ago: It was announced that 65-100 bicyclists from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Canada and the United States would be passing through the Valley Shore during an event at the end of July called Bike for Peace 86’. Bikers were expected to cross the Connecticut River on the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry and proceed through Centerbrook and Westbrook.

25 years ago: Dr. Doreen P. DeLucca joined the staff at the Durham Veterinary Hospital. Delucca was a 1986 graduate of Washington University, School of Veterinary Medicine and a Connecticut native from the New Haven area. She had attended Quinnipiac College earning a bachelor of science degree in laboratory animal technology.