100 years ago, 1916
Lewiston Falls never looked more beautiful or spectacular than today when we consider the season. The water is high and at West Pitch the torrent is fierce. It is certainly a great pity that there is no way by which this splendid scenery can be enjoyed by our people. O, for a park!

50 years ago, 1966
There’s an old adage that heat breeds bad tempers. Here’s proof of it. Yesterday a couple of youngsters down Danville way set themselves up in the refreshment business — selling homemade cool beverages. It was a good day for it — one of the hottest of the young summer season. But as will happen to partners now and then there was a disagreement. A parent of the younger of the two complained that the older had beaten up the other. The business became defunct. Police checked and the older boy said he didn’t beat the younger boy up — he just pushed a piece of cake in his face. Blame it on the heat — and the humidity.

25 years ago, 1991
By next spring the $43 million waste-to-energy plant now under construction in Auburn should be fully operational, according to Neal Allen, executive director of Mid-Maine Waste Action Corp. “We’re not sure exactly when, but the project is pretty much on schedule,” Allen said. “There will be a fairly lengthy start-up and acceptance period to bring the system on-line, and that can take a few months.” MMWAC, a consortium of 12 towns that have banded together to construct a state-of-the-art trash burning facility, broke ground for the project one year ago today. The new facility, which can burn 200 tons of trash a day, will replace a problem-plagued steam plant that never performed to specifications and was ultimately dismantled.

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