100 years ago: 1925

A Sabattus man, A. Niles, wrote a letter to the editor reluctantly supporting a higher tax on dogs, but only if the state offers canines better protection. Under existing law, Niles wrote, “a man may shoot him, steal him or run over him with an auto” without facing any liability. “They tell us this law is to protect the sheep. I would like to know how many men whose dogs have killed sheep have ever paid a cent damage?”

50 years ago: 1975

Auburn police early this morning assisted a motorist in need. Shortly after midnight, a woman notified headquarters that her car had just run out of gas on Broad Street.

Considering the late hour and frigid temperatures, Patrolman Calvin Hunter gave the lady a lift to an all-night filling station where she obtained fuel. Officer Hunter then assisted the lady in pouring the gas into the tank and the grateful motorist went on her way.

25 years ago: 2000

Maine’s Joey Gamache, who won the World Boxing Association’s super featherweight title in 1991 and its lightweight title in 1992, came back to the Lewiston Armory to announce his retirement from professional boxing. The news came two weeks after “his brutal knockout loss on Feb. 26.

His 55-4 career “began in the sweaty confines of his father’s boxing gym in the Lewiston Armory and ended before almost 14,000 people at New York’s Madison Square Garden.”

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