100 years ago, 1912
 It is proposed to begin work, Tuesday, on the biggest tenement block ever erected in Lewiston, It will be four stories high and will contain 24 tenements. Edward Bilodeau, a local carpenter, has bought a lot 100 feet square on the northwest corner of Blake and Maple Streets and that will be the site of the new block. No other building in Lewiston has so many tenements as Mr. Bilodeau proposes to have in his block. The larged at present is the Dionne block on Birch Street, which as 20 flats and the second is the Institute Jacques Cartier building on Park Street, which has 16 flats.

50 years ago, 1962
A flash fire caused severe damage at the Lewiston Woolen Co. on Lincoln st. early afternoon after it broke out before work shifts at a time “when there fortunately weren’t many girls in the building,” a management spokesman said. An employee was at her spinning machine when “flames started right up right at the front end of the machine near the motor. They shot right up to the ceiling. I ran,” she said.

25 years ago, 1987
(Photo Caption) This abandoned house, more than 100 years old and owned by Paul Cote of Poland, is to be set afire Sunday morning under the direction of Ernest Fitts Jr., Poland Fire Chief. Extinguishing the blaze will be a training exercise for about 50 volunteer firemen from Poland, Mechanic Falls, Minot, Oxford and New Gloucester, who will be participating with three tank trucks and six other fire-fighting vehicles. Fitts said fires will be set in each room of the rambling two-story structure in a drill for the mutual aid group. The house is on the Harris Hill Road, a tenth of a mile south of Poland Corner Road.