100 years ago, 1916
The Worumbo Manufacturing Co. is doing a large amount of cement work on their property on Canal street, Lisbon, opposite the mill. They have also drilled several wells on their land near the river near where the saw mill formerly stood. These wells have been drilled 40 feet deep and from those reaching the solid rock the water is said to be but 10 degrees above freezing. The water from these wells will be used by the company in their mills. They have been taking water from the town at the rate of about 60,000 gallons a day.

50 years ago, 1966
Two young Lewiston boys successfully managed to capture a crane Tuesday afternoon while fishing at Sabattus Lake. The boys, Lee Rossignol and Mike Roy, both of the Old Lisbon Road, “cast” their fishing line around the bird’s legs, and then carried it in a sack for four miles to their homes. The two 11-year-olds, both avid collectors of snakes, birds and such, have been feeding bread to the almost-grown crane and have been trying to postpone their parents’ inevitable call to the game warden.

25 years ago, 1991
The Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport’s new, $2.5 million main runway — which Lewiston and Auburn each put $64,525 toward building — has opened. Airport Manager Richard Nuttall said the contractor, Pike Industries of Tilton, N.H., finished the job last month, weeks ahead of schedule. “It’s beautiful,” said Fern Giguere, who has worked at the airport 28 years, now as deputy director of maintenance. The runway, known as 4-22, is 5,000 feet long and 100 feet wide and replaces one the War Department built when it took over the airport during World War II, for Navy training. That one was the same length, but, by military standards, 50 feet wider. “We didn’t really need 150 feet,” Nuttall said of the airport’s present needs.

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