Just an hour or so after they had sat, as the full district council, and approved their own suburban area local plan – which includes an embargo on any further housing development in the village – they reconvened as the planning committee.
One of the agenda items confronting them was a bid by Skateraw Development Co., to build the additional twelve houses on land which the firm owns at Newtonhill.
And after hearing that jobs would be endangered if permission was refused, the committee decided – by seven votes to three – to advertise that they intended to consider amending the local plan to accommodate the proposal.
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A COMBINED disco/midnight bathing – and "nosh" – session is to be held on an experimental basis at Stonehaven's heated outdoor pool a week tomorrow, Saturday July 30.

50 YEARS AGO
Friday July 25 1958

IN an eloquent fifteen-minute address, Dr W. Douglas Simpson, librarian of Aberdeen University and well-known historian, unfolded the story of Stonehaven's Old Tolbooth to members of the Executive Committee of the Scottish National Trust when they visited the building last week.
The Tolbooth, which was originally built as a warehouse by the Earl Marischal, is the subject of a £6,200 restoration appeal by means of which it is hoped to reconstruct the interior of the building and transform it into a folk-lore museum, tea-room etc.
The executive of the National Trust, who have expressed themselves very interested in the scheme, were welcomed by Provost Christie and later shown parts of the building.

100 YEARS AGO
Thursday July 23 1908

A RUNAWAY horse caused considerable excitement in Evan Street shortly before 6 o'clock on Monday night.
The animal, which was attached to a coal lorry, ran off at great speed down the street, which was crowded at the time.
About the middle of the street an attempt was made to stop the horse, and this caused the animal to swerve on to a handsome motor car, which was standing at the foot of Robert Street.
In the car were an Aberdeen advocate, three ladies and a boy on their way to Banchory. Seeing the horse at a distance the car was drawn into the side, and the occupants alighted.
On the horse came, and the front part of the car was severely damaged by the lorry coming in contact with it. The horse was unhurt, and the lorry was only slightly damaged.
Had the career of the runaway not been stopped by the motor, injury to people might have occurred, as the direction towards which the horse was running was crowded with holiday-makers.