100 years ago, 1912
Monday was the opening day of moving pictures in the Union Musicale theatre of Auburn. Under a five months lease, William Gray, manager of Mystic theatre of Lewiston, takes this theatre as a venture and there seems to be no reason why it should not be a successful one. Previous ventures of this sort in Auburn have failed for lack of a suitable location and a hall of adequate size. The Union Musicale, at the corner of Cook and Second streets, is a thoroughly modern structure, built for a theatre and completely fitted for such. It seats about 1,000.

50 years ago, 1962
It became quite apparent today that warm weather had arrived. The Lewiston fire department got four calls to clean gasoline from streets when it overflowed from automobile gas tanks. The warm weather makes the gasoline in the tanks expand.

25 years ago, 1987
(Editorial – “A Sweet Irony”) The good news is that the Lewiston-Auburn unemployment rate has dropped and the welfare rolls are shrinking. The bad news is that there are fewer people in the Workfare program to perform odd jobs for the cities. Lewiston’s Workfare program, which requires able-bodied welfare recipients to work for the city in exchange for the assistance they receive, plunged from a total of 105 people a couple of months ago to approximately 30 last week. The number of people on welfare in Lewiston shrank from 463 in March of last year to 362 in March of 1987. Auburn’s welfare rolls fell from 93 last year to 77 in March of 1987.