100 years ago, 1915
The Lewiston police spent the night and day Friday scouring the country side in an auto for the three men that rushed upon Thomas McNamara on a lonely spot on the Randall road, Lewiston, Thursday night, and after smothering him in a burlap bag, beat him into unconsciousness, and stole $800 from his pockets. Believing that the robbers were familiar with the habits of McNamara and that he was watched when he boarded the Waterville car at the transfer station, Lewiston, and that the car left behind an auto contained the men, the police picked up the tracks of a machine by a peculiarity of tire.

50 years ago, 1965
(Photo Caption) Gerald Parent, right, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rene J. Parent of 35 Jefferson St., Auburn, couldn’t make it to his Edward Little High School graduation Wednesday evening because he is a patient at the Central Maine General Hospital. Try as he did, Alfred N. Savignano, principal of ELHS, couldn’t get the young man’s doctors to release him from the hospital for the evening. So, this morning. Savignano went to the hospital where he presented young Parent with his diploma. The young man, in the spirit of the occasion, donned his gown over his hospital Johnny, and, all smiles, received his reward for three years of hard high school work.

25 years ago, 1990
“The Class of 1990 is undaunted,” stated Principal Walter Buotte after he re-opened commencement exercises in the Oxford Hills High gym in Paris Saturday night. The graduation ceremony was forced indoors by a heavy rainfall. The faculty and graduating class had marched onto the athletic field to begin graduation exercises at Oxford Hills High School. Introduction of dignitaries, including the Honorable George Mitchell, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, had just been completed when a thunderstorm hit with a heavy downpour of rain. Although their caps and gowns were soaked, their hair-do’s bedraggled, members of the senior class reconvened their program in the school gymnasium an hour later.

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