The Scottish Development Department, as trunk road authority, do not propose to implement no parking legislation along stretches of Allardice Street – the main thoroughfare – members of Grampian's transportation and roads committee heard when they met on Tuesday.
Stonehaven/Kinneff councillor Ian B. Robertson, who is committee chairman, told his colleagues that he understood tenders for building the by-pass were currently being considered by the Scottish Office.
Because of that and the SDD's decision not to proceed with 'no waiting' bans along parts of Alladrice Street, he wondered whether it would be appropriate for the Region to go ahead with yellow-line proposals for neighbouring side streets.
He noted a completely new pattern of traffic would be introduced to the town once the bypass came into being.
But one of his committee pointed out that it could be up to three years before that came about – and members agreed the situation should be kept under review.

50 Years Ago

Friday, December 6, 1957

WHAT was the mysterious lighted object seen in the late afternoon sky on Sunday and Monday of this week?
No definite answer has as yet been forthcoming and in these days of flying saucers and Sputniks, conjecture has been rife.
First to see it were Mr and Mrs J. Esslemont, Aberdeen, who were motoring towards Cove Bay at about 3.30pm on Sunday.
In the twilight both noticed what Mrs Esslemont described as: "a streak of light moving slowly across the sky with a very bright light in the centre."
Other observers, including Mr J. Thomson, who keeps the village shop, joined in the watch and binoculars were pressed into service, but no definite conclusion could be reached as to what it was exactly.
What might have been the same object was seen by a party walking on the Kempstone Hill road, near Stonehaven.
Around 3.30pm, the evening star, the planet Venus, showed very bright in the clear sky to the south-west, but gradually a thin frosty haze, at times tinged orange from the setting sun, arose around it.
The haze did not obscure the planet completely, but gave it the appearance of a halo, sometimes yellow, sometimes flame coloured, while there were moments where it was crystal clear.
At Aberdeen University, opinion tends to favour Venus as the origin of seeming phenomenon.

100 Years Ago

Thursday, December 5, 1907

TEAMS representing Stonehaven and Aberdeen University met at Stonehaven on Saturday in fine weather for a golf match.
The greens were in excellent order and some good scores were registered.
The feature of the afternoon was the performance of Dr Chalmers of the Varsity Club who, with the score of 68, equalled the record of the course.
Dr Chalmers's opponent was Mr A.L. Wood.
The match resulted in a win for the home team by 5 ½ matches to 3 ½.