100 years ago, 1916
A new service arrangement was put into effect Monday by L. A. & W., in regard to handling cars in Union Square. The object of the new rule, which forbids more than one car being inside the diamond or “Y” formed by the Main street line and the turns of the Lisbon street rails, at one time. This will facilitate the moving of team and automobile traffic from Lisbon street into Main and return. This rule works its follows: If two cars, one an Auburn heights, the other a Figure 8 are coming down Main street, the first car will run into the diamond, stopping between the two white marks on the track. The second, or Figure 8, will stop before it reaches the first switch point in the square, or above the crossing. If three cars were coming down, the first would proceed thru the diamond, to a point just below the switch point there, the second would stop in the diamond, and the third would not pass the upper switch point until the second had gone.

50 years ago, 1966
(Photo Caption) Workmen are seen, one with paintbrush in hand, the other with tape measure, marking out the lines on the newly-constructed outdoor basketball court at Montello Junior High School, Lewiston. The court will be available for use to youngsters of the area during fall and spring school
periods, and during the summer vacation.

25 years ago, 1991
The forthcoming publication of a narrative history of Thompson Lake was discussed by the lake’s environmental association board of directors Friday evening at Ricker Memorial Library. Margaret E. Slattery and Joan C. Madden are writing and editing the paperback history, which they hope to have distributed later this year. Sketches of early days in the four towns bordering the lake — Casco, Oxford, Otisfield and Poland — are to be included, along with features about early tourist cottages and former camps such as Ohuno and Waepi Pines of Otisfield and Wayaka of Casco.

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