100 years ago,1911

The Star Club of Lewiston met this week with Henry McGraw of Chestnut Street, when the following officers were elected to have charge of the club baseball team during the coming year: Donat Levesque, president; T. Desjardins, captain; Omer Gauvin, manager; Ludger Verville, treasurer.

C. Ray Thompson of Bates was chosen to coach the team and Albert Morneau and M. Gagnon were chosen to umpire the games.

50 years ago, 1961

Children from the Marcotte Home and Healy Asylum will be guests of the Pine Tree Warriors at the Girls Drill Team Colorama Championship of 1961 to be staged at the Lewiston Memorial Armory on March 26. A section will be reserved for the young guests, and refreshments will be served to them by the committee.

Last year, the children also were guests and are looking forward to this year’s performance.

25 years ago, 1986

Androscoggin County Commissioners have all but abandoned plans to find a privately owned place for a juvenile detention center somewhere in the Lewiston-Auburn community.

The idea just has not been popular, said Commissioner James E. Dougherty.

Now, officials are hoping to convert space in the basement of the County Building to a four-or-five-bed detention center for wayward children.

“I’ve been looking for a place since April of last year and wherever we’ve gone, they don’t want us. They say they don’t want those bad kids in our neighborhood,” Dougherty said Friday.