100 years ago, 1912
It was an ideal day for a tramp, overhead, but the roads … Oh my! Oh my! Mud and water wet the feet of the Lewiston Boy Scouts when they went on a tramp on country roads, Thursday, but it did not dampen their ardor. None of them started from the Bates campus at 8:45 a.m. prepared for an all-day journey up the Switzerland road. Many had never seen the Deer Rips dam and objective point was this large water storage.

50 years ago, 1962
Over $100 worth of damage was caused at noon today when the left front wheel came off an Auburn man’s delivery truck and went through a window at the Auburn Lanes at Main and Academy Streets. Police said some damage was also done to the interior of the building.
 
25 years ago, 1987
A plan to open a frozen custard business at the corner of Hampshire and Goff streets was dashed by a 4-2 vote of the Auburn Planning Board Tuesday night because, according to one board member, it would only draw more traffic and children to an already dangerous intersection. Board member Robert Hayes said the proposed “Custard’s Last Stand,” which a young couple wanted to set up in a non-conforming building they bought last fall, would only “compound the problem” of children crossing the busy intersection. “If it’s going to be a successful business, it’s got to attract traffic,” Hayes said.