100 years ago, 1912
A HORSE, A COW AND A NEW BARN — Some of the Needs of Opportunity Farm at New Gloucester. “You just bet I like here, and I want to stay.” He was a small, frail, tow-haired lad and as he trudged along the country road at New Gloucester, telling a visitor to Opportunity Farm about the home he had come from and how he loved to be at the farm.
To be sure, Opportunity Farm has not all the modern improvements. With  comparatively few repairs and improvements, its condition would be satisfactory. If money can be obtained to tear down the old barn and re-build, and then to purchase a horse and a cow for the place, there is a well known man who stands ready to paint and paper the whole interior of the house.

50 years ago, 1962
Last night’s meeting of the Androscoggin County Candidates Committee at the county building was a “beaut,” apparently. Today there was much conjecture as to whether or not Lewiston Alderman Paul A, Couture defeated Louis Jalbert of Lewiston for chairmanship of the committee. “How could I be defeated when I wasn’t even a candidate?” Jalbert asked. Jalbert said he chalks the whole thing up to one thing: “Jealousy.” He said he left  the meeting before the voting started. “I left because I wanted party harmony. There just wasn’t any and I wasn’t interested in any rhubarb,” he said.

25 years ago, 1987
School officials in Auburn and Lewiston don’t know if there are children in their classrooms with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, but are planning to discuss adoption of the state’s planned model policy for dealing with the disease. In Auburn, school staff members are forming a committee to study the AIDS issue. The Lewiston committee will view the state’s model policy, which should be completed this week.