25 years ago: Burr Elementary School students displayed posters depicting the uses of a public library. The students made the posters as part of a contest that was sponsored by the Brainard Memorial Library in Haddam, which students had visited on a town of various buildings in town. Student Jennifer Charest won first prize in the poster contest.

25 years ago: Eaton E. Smith and John Kay erected signs at the entrances to East Hampton. The signs pronounced the town “Belltown of America.”