The Park Theatre was located at 72 Main St. in downtown Nashua. The vaudeville house caught fire on Sept. 28, 1947. (Photo courtesy of cinematreasures.org)

JUNE 6, 1970 – A dispute over the use of Holman Stadium for a peace rally, one of many across the country in protest of the Vietnam war, continued even after the rally was canceled. Park-Recreation Commission chairman Allan B. Silber said that the lawyer for the Nashua Peace Coalition discovered that changes in the makeup of the commission that were approved in 1968 had not been implemented.

JUNE 7 1975 – Nashua District Court Judge Aaron Harkaway finds the county courthouse on Temple Street is unacceptable for use as a city court, with or without the $100,000 appropriation proposed by Mayor Dennis J. Sullivan to renovate the old courthouse and to provide parking.

JUNE 8, 1950 – One man suffered severe burns and a fractured left foot when he leapt from a porch trying to escape flames that swept through the three-story Thomas Block at West Pearl and Chestnut streets. Damage caused by the city’s worst fire of the year was unofficially estimated at more than $30,000.

JUNE 9, 1955 -Growing pains and a shift in population trends indicate several Protestant parishes will build new churches in the near future at costs approaching the million-dollar figure. Three churches may undertake building new structures to provide for their increasing needs and a fourth, the Church of the Nazarene, has already acquired land in the south end and has begun construction.

JUNE 10, 1940 – Stanley Buslovich, 22, of 7 Fourth St. in Nashua, suffered fatal injuries and a companion, Walter Olson, 58, of 58 Nagle St., suffered a broken leg when a motorcycle on which they were riding collided with an automobile.

JUNE 11, 1975 – The Nashua Board of Aldermen last night decided to postpone until after the Nov. 4 municipal election recommendations on two contradictory ordinances pertaining to the expansion of duties for the office of aldermanic vice president and its outright abolishment. Alderman at large Henry L. Naro proposed the ordinance to abolish the office and return to the former practice of electing a chairman pro-tem when the whenever the chairman could not conduct a board meeting. Alderman at Large Donald C. Davidson, then serving as the aldermanic vice president, introduced the measure to expand the office’s duties.

JUNE 12, 1925 – Owing to the many interior changes that will be made in the next few weeks, the Park Theater will close with a reopening planned in the middle of August. The vaudeville season at the Park this years has been one of its most successful.

JUNE 13, 1980 – A Gathersburg, Md., escaped serious injury when flames swept his room at the Thunderbird Motel on Daniel Webster Highway. At 2:48 a.m., Charles Anderson awakened to find his room in flames. He fled from the burning room in the 24-unit section of the motel and notified the Fire Department. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, confining it to the one room.