100 years ago, 1913
All kinds of complaints were received at the Lewiston police station over Sunday and the number of arrests was unusually large. There was a poker raid, a seizure of liquor and arrests on charges of assault, breaking and entering and intoxication. Eight persons were arrested by Chief McCarron, Deputy Chief Davis, Captain Walsh and Officer Picard in a raid made at No. 9 Spruce street in a shop alleged to be run by B. Miller. This place is a store on the street level and the police claim the gambling is done in a rear room. Tables, cards and money were gathered in by the police, who also took the men found at the tables to the police station.

50 years ago, 1963
Lewiston firemen this afternoon were called to extinguish a fire set in a railroad car, apparently by children. The department was summoned by railroad officials and fire fighting equipment was sent to the Holland Street railroad yard for the blaze which was inside a steel gondola car. The blaze was quickly extinguished and the car sustained no damage.

25 years ago, 1988
The Androscoggin County Commission will not interpret a state report criticizing operations at the County Jail as an indictment of the corrections staff or Jail Administrator John Lebel. Commissioner John Dougherty, saying he spoke for commissioners Emile Jacques and Chairman Carol Boyce, said, “I have nothing but great things to say for the people working for us at the jail.” As for Lebel, Dougherty said, “He’s done magic, given what he has to work with.”

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