100 years ago, 1912
Children’s stories seem to be responsible for the report that a strange man, a “man of mystery,” as he has been termed, is hanging around in Franklin pasture, in the vicinity of Webster street and East avenue, for the apparent purpose of frightening little folks. Many of the neighbors in that locality have been questioned, but it has been impossible to find any adult who has seen a strange man. One woman seems to have well summed up the situation when she says, “You know the children are old enough to realize there has been uneasiness in the city of late and I think it would take very little to scare them. My opinion is that there is nothing in the rumors we are hearing.”

50 years ago, 1962
A Lewiston father of four children flatly denied, in Auburn Municipal Court today, that he was peeking into a Main St. window last night, and informed the court that he was about to watch a grocery store across the street with intentions of breaking in “in a day or two.” A Main Street resident told the court that he has been bothered by Peeping Toms recently.
 
25 years ago, 1987
Terry and the Telstars, The Royal Knights, Roger Michaud and the Moon Dawgs, The Innkeepers. There is magic in those names for thousands of Lewiston-Auburn residents now in their 30s and 40s, the magic of the memories of their teenage years. And for a brief moment June 26 that magic will live again as these rock bands from the mid-1960s reunite for a special one-night revival of the PAL Hop. PAL hops were fund-raisers that the Police Athletic League held every Friday night at the Lewiston City Building from 1962 to 1966. The events drew more than 1,200 teens (the first 1,200 who were lucky enough to get in the door, anyway) to listen, dance and meet people as five to seven local bands played each night. This summer’s revival, “PAL Hop Rocks Again,” is expected to draw four or five times that number to the Central Maine Youth Center.