100 years ago,1911

Hemlock and yellow birch trees on the Jordan, John Labonte and F. W. Garcelon farms on the Rowe’s Corner Road have been stripped of their bark and considerable damage has resulted. It is understood that a man was out in that vicinity last week and was seen leaving with several bags of bark in a wagon. It is supposed that the bark was taken for medicinal purposes.

50 years ago, 1961

Deputy Fire Chief Louis Talarico was elected president of the Lewiston Municipal Federal Credit Union at its annual meeting last night.

Talarico succeeds Police Chief Roland C. Amnott, who presided at the business meeting. Police Capt. Rene J. Larrivee was elected vice president; and City Treasurer-Collector Adrien O. Anctil was renamed treasurer-clerk, a post he has held since the credit union was organized in 1944.

25 years ago, 1986

It’s been a long time coming, but several Maine performing artists have a new showcase in the eight-part series, “Exit 13,” produced by WCBB-TV (Channel 10) in Lewiston.

The first show, scheduled to air at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, will feature the well-known trio Schooner Fare, whose nautical and Celtic-style harmonies have been heard by thousands of people since the group formed in 1975.

Other groups to be featured early in the series include Abrams and Anderson, an improvisational comedy duo, the Wicked Good Band ( who also wrote the “Exit 13” theme) and Dave Mallet.