She remembered back in high school when her classmates wanted to get a McDonald s hamburger, they d have to drive to Bangor. I m a city person now. For Bob Sang, Class of 47, a retired police office who traveled from California to attend this year s reunion, the change to Ellsworth appeared more startling. When I went to high school, High Street, none of that was out there. Sang has returned five times since he graduated and noticed the changes as businesses have popped up between the High and Main streets intersection and Carroll s IGA in Trenton.
Cars zip by and commercial enterprises and restaurants dot the roads.
Not all the changes are bad, Sang said. One of the better things, he said is the high school, which he saw for the first time this trip. I can t imagine Ellsworth having a high school like this. I would say this is the biggest change. Not unlike many of the graduates, Sang, a native of Ellsworth, keeps returning.