25 Years Ago: Stan Atwell, chairman of the third annual Middlefield Old Home Days, announced what activities would be held in the month of June.

25 Years Ago: Rejecting pleas from Democrats to "right a wrong," the Republican majority on the Old Saybrook Board of Selectmen appointed fellow Republican Karen O’Nell over Democrat William R. Gesick to a GOP vacancy on the school board.

25 Years Ago: The Portland Fire Department’s emergency medical technicians were not being called to all medical emergencies in town, department personnel told the Board of Selectmen. Many calls were going directly to Professional Ambulance instead.

25 Years Ago: It took Haddam third graders in Hazel Kurlansky’s class at Haddam Elementary School to remind town officials of a very significant date in town history —its 325th anniversary. On May 29, 1662, a group of settlers gave about 200 pelts to local Indians in exchange for a tract of land that became known as 30 Mile Plantation.

25 YEARS AGO: Coginchaug Regional High School was a recipient of the Governor’s Youth Action Award that was made by Gov. William O’Neil in his office to four schools and two youth service bureaus.

25 YEARS AGO: After eight years limited to fixing up its low- and moderate-income housing projects, the Middletown Housing Authority was back in the building business. The authority sought to construct as many as 30 more elderly housing units at Marino Manor, its 40-unit elderly project on Randolph Road and South Main Street.

25 YEARS AGO: Mayor Sebastian J. Garafalo predicted that Middletown would back a waste-to-energy plant at Connecticut Valley Hospital rather than a larger one proposed for Route 72, which encountered strong public opposition.

25 YEARS AGO: More than 100 townspeople and school faculty attended a memorial presentation in honor of the late Lowell A. Klappholz of Old Saybrook.

25 YEARS AGO: Improving the school parking lots in Cromwell proved to cost a lot more than originally estimated, the Board of Selectmen learned.

25 YEARS AGO: A motion to increase the bargain price of school lunches by 25 cents prompted a discussion by Regional 4 Board of Education of the nutritional value of the a la carte portion of the menu. While board members agreed to increase the prices, a parent, who said his daughter ate ice cream for lunch, questioned students’ choices.

25 YEARS AGO: Cromwell residents were very angry that Pubic Works crews weren’t picking up everything they put on their front lawns for spring clean-up. At one time, town crews could pick up things like furniture and tires, but in 1987, the collection was limited to heavy metal items and brush.

25 YEARS AGO: Between $300,000 and $500,000 had a possibility of being chopped off the next year’s fiscal budget after Old Saybrook voters went to the polls and sent down to defeat a proposed spending of $13.3 million. The budget was defeated by a vote of 476-331.

25 Years Ago: District 17 Board of Education Chairman Allyn B. Chase revealed that he had been advised of plans to petition a referendum vote on the education budget, nearly two months before the start of a petition drive that sent the 1987-88 budget to a district referendum.

25 Years Ago: East Hampton Board of Selectmen revealed that Peter Sierpinski, who made a deposit on the vacant Middle Haddam School, would purchase the school by the end of the month of May.

25 Years Ago: For the second time in three years, an independent candidate of Durham upset tradition by winning election to the regional board over a candidate backed by the Democratic Town Committee.

25 Years Ago: The Cromwell Drug and Alcohol Task Force had $1,500 to start a speakers’ bureau thanks to a golf tournament held at the Tournament Players Club.

25 Years Ago: Students at Vinal Regional Vocational High School in Middletown captured six top awards at a state skills competition in Hartford. The students won a total of 15 group and individual awards at the 10th annual Vocational Industrial Clubs of America conference, at which some 1,200 students competed from 36 secondary schools in Connecticut.

25 Years Ago: The U.S. Justice Department announced that the investigation into Old Saybrook resident Susan C. Marland’s controversial arrest should be closed.