ASSEMBLY TOPIC – Tourists fill Lincoln Street near the Lake Street intersection Monday afternoon. The Assembly will review the recommendations of the tourism task force at the regular meeting tonight at Harrigan Centennial Hall. They will consider  “flattening the curve” on cruise ship tourism growth, regulations for ebikes, and creating a best-management practices program among other item in an action plan. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

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20 YEARS AGO

June 2004 

Photo caption: Doug Jay, president of Swiftsure Foods, and John Upcraft, plant manager of AQE, stand together at the newly opened seafood process plant at the Sawmill Cove Industrial Park.

50 YEARS AGO

June 1974

KIFW TV Saturday: 11 a.m. Scooby  Doo; noon My Favorite Martian; 12:20 Jeannie; 1 p.m. Speed Buggy; 1:30  p.m. Josie & the Pussycats; 2 p.m. Pebbles & Bam Bam; 2:30 Fat Albert; 3 p.m. Sportsman; 3:30 Wide World of Sports; 5 p.m. Movie “Hello Down There” 7 p.m. Mary Tyler Moore; 7:30 Bob Newhart; 8 p.m. All in the Family; 8:30 MASH; 9 p.m. Carol Burnett; 10 p.m. Owen Marshall;11 p.m. Movie “Asylum.”

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