100 years ago, 1916
Ten miles of streets and highways will be covered by the big field of long-distance runners entered in the Ten-Mile Road Race, Lewiston, May 30. The race will start from Union square at 12:37 or as near that time as traffic will permit. The runners will be lined up, toes on the car tracks and facing Lisbon street. At the report of Mayor Brann’s pistol, the athletes will leap to the start of the biggest road race ever held in Maine. National and Cercle Canadiens baseball clubs of Lewiston will play on the Lewiston Athletic park while waiting for the runners and will stop the game when the first runner enters the park and resume playing when the race is finished.

50 years ago, 1966
Androscoggin Clerk of Courts Roland C Houle, the bearded County official, stands out in a crowd, around here. Up at Kingfield, this summer, he won’t. He’s been invited to the Kingfield Sesquicentennial, which will he held in August of this year, as a judge in a scheduled beard contest. It’s a sure thing that he won’t be too noticeable with all those other bearded ones around.

25 years ago, 1991
Disturbed by sizeable annual town tax increases, Mel Robbins, proprietor of the Poland Spring Inn, is spearheading a citizens’ group advocating separation of the community of Poland Spring from the Town of Poland. “It isn’t going to be easy, but local residents would have a better town for far less cost,” he said Sunday. “A number of concerned citizens are working to organize Poland Spring as a separate town, to split it off from Poland and its politicians, its ever-increasing taxes and its follies in matters such as schools, fire protection, road repairs, plowing and sewerage,” he said.

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