100 years ago, 1913
Believing themselves secure from detection, a pair of hen thieves sat down at the junction of the Maine Central and Grand Trunk tracks in Crystal Pond neighborhood, New Auburn, to calmly pluck the feathers from their prey. Across the Androscoggin they were seen and word sent to the Auburn police. Officers Hamilton and Shannon were sent in a wagon after the culprits. Hamilton saw them crossing the Maine Central bridge and sent four bullets in their direction but the thieves escaped.

50 years ago, 1963
A Lewiston recreation park in the making, Paradise Park, was the subject of much discussion at Last night’s meeting of the Lewiston Board of Health and Welfare. Some residents of the Maple ridge area, which is adjacent to Paradise Park, asked that the board investigate the possibilities of the area becoming a “health menace.” In a presentation to the board, a resident asked that something be done to check “the possibility of the pond becoming polluted.” It was said that it was the board’s “duty” to investigate whether the pond has sufficient inflow and outlets to guarantee the pond water “will not become stagnant.”

25 years ago, 1988
KTI Energy Inc. will build a $95 million waste to-electricity plant on River Road, Lewiston, beside its existing wood-chipping operation, officials announced Thursday. Officials for the Portland-based energy firm, who first proposed the idea nearly two years ago, predict the project will generate several hundred jobs during three years of construction, plus 50 permanent positions. The plant would accept all of Lewiston’s waste, plus the waste of other willing communities, and sell electricity to CMP.