100 years ago, 1912
Not only the Auburn Fire Department but a great number of spectators were fooled Tuesday morning by a rather peculiar incident. At 10 minutes past nine the fire alarm at box 84, which is located at the corner of Goff and Grant streets, rang in. The fire department responded with its usual promptness but found no fire. The N.E. Telephone co. linemen were at work on the wires on Goff Street. One was driving a spike into the post and the first that they knew the fire trucks came tearing up the street. Even then, they did not know that the alarm had been rung in by the driving of the spike. It was as much a surprise to them as it was to the fire department.

50 years ago, 1962
The regional director of the National Hot-Rod Association will come to the Twin Cities to discuss with the members of the Lewiston-Auburn Airport Committee plans for an organized drag strip at the local airport. Members of four local clubs have recently organized into a group called the Central Maine Timing Association and its purpose is to hold drag meets at the L-A airport on the first and third Sundays of each month. Clubs represented in the CMTA are the Stick-Shifts. Crusaders, Sultans and the Andy Valley Rod and Customs.

25 years ago, 1987
Lewiston city councilors agreed Tuesday to transfer $74,000 in surplus funds to pay for a drinking water treatment facility after bids for the project exceeded the $350,000 allocated. The cost of the Lake Auburn facility, to be built by Penta Corp of Moultonboro, N.H., now stands at $420,000. Twenty-year-old chlorination equipment will be replaced as part of the project, and a new fluoride feed system will be installed.