100 years ago, 1911

Auburn has a new industry located on Goff Hill. It is the chicken industry at the Carles Cushman place. Although this industry has been in progress for some time,  it is now being enlarged and bettered. This, too, is the best time to visit the place for it is now that the chickens are creeping from their eggs daily in large numbers. When visited by the Sun recently, there were over 3,700 chickens between the ages of one day and five weeks and a flock of over 1,000 full-grown hens.

50 years ago, 1961

Roger and Dorothy Pariseau of Turner have taken over operations of Bear Pond Park at North Turner from Stephen J. and Sally J. Koske, also of Turner, operators of the park the last 14 years.

The Pariseaus have been associated with the Koske couple at the park throughout the 14 years and prior to that were associated with Koske in operation of the Beacon ballroom in Lewiston and another at Boothbay Harbor.

25 years ago, 1986

Despite warnings from the public works director and other officials, the Lewiston City Council failed to garner enough affirmative votes Tuesday to appropriate $60,000 toward extending the city’s near-capacity landfill.

Acting Public Works Director Christopher C. Branch cautioned councilors that if $60,000 were not appropriated immediately, the annual cost of disposing of Lewiston’s 33,000 tons of trash would skyrocket from roughly $300,000 to $1.2 million.

Because rules governing the council require at least six affirmative votes for approprations made after adoption of the city budget in March, the 5-2 vote was not enough to pass the motion.