100 years ago, 1916
Billy Payne proposes to run a fight at Lewiston City Hall next Tuesday evening. That the proposition is almost sure to be a losing one, looking at it from any point of view, is evident, and the deduction follows that Payne, or for that matter any other promoter would do well to let the fight game here stay where it is — dead. A fight in Lewiston will not pay now, has not paid for years and probably will not pay until a club of business men takes hold of the proposition.

50 years ago, 1966
Lewiston’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen switched its vote Monday night to allow radio broadcasting of its business meetings during 1966. The aldermen had voted 4-3 at Sunday Inaugural rehearsal to ban the radio (WLAM) and Monday the station general manager, F. Parker Hoy, called the vote a violation of the right-to-know law. He asked people who favor the broadcasts to get in touch with their aldermen. There was a huddle of the aldermen before the Monday night inaugural program started and they agreed the broadcasts, started in 1960, would continue. An official vote was taken during the program. It was reported that many citizens also protested the ban.

25 years ago, 1991
The recently approved landfill expansion at the city’s River Road site has started the new year with its first load of waste. Lewiston-Auburn Water Pollution Control Authority Superintendent Clayton “Mac” Richardson reported Friday that the expansion — called the lined-disposal area — had received its first shipment of sludge. “We had 1,206 cubic yards, or 98 percent of last month’s sludge, deposited in the landfill,” said Richardson. The other 2 percent was spread on farmland. Last year, the landfill expansion received criticism from the Department of Environmental Protection because several defects had been found in the liner that was placed over the clay foundation.

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