25 Years Ago: An unusually high number of students at the John Lyman Elementary School in Middlefield were out during a 10-day period with the flu, according to the school’s principal. Of the school’s 200 students, 30 were registered as absent one day and even two teachers were out.

25 Years Ago: The owner of Killingworth Inn sought approval to reopen a bar in the historic building that was the former Winkel’s Kenilworth Inn. Diane Dennen, who reopened the building on Route 80- Route 81, sought a special permit from the Planning and Zoning Commission to open a café in the ground-floor location of the earlier Winkel’s café.