100 years ago, 1916
If you are not an adept at cussing, don’t start in an automobile for Augusta from Lewiston via either College or the Greene roads! Should the weather of Tuesday and Wednesday continue for the rest of the week, it would be safe to make the try, otherwise not. Plain and ordinary users of profanity who have attempted this trip during the past week have found their supply of curses insufficient for the demands of the occasion and completely exhausted before the good state highway in Greene has been reached. Both highways are in a frightful condition. Machine after machine has come to grief on first one and then the other of them. To get thru has been a strain on any machine and has been, in addition, extremely dangerous.

50 years ago, 1966
(EDITORIAL) We welcome the news that the trustees of Bates College unanimously have selected Dr. Thomas H. Reynolds, of Middlebury College, to become the new president of Bates. The choice is important both to the college and to the community. Naming a successor to Dr. Charles F. Phillips was no easy task. The outstanding record of President Phillips through the past 22 years made the job of finding the right man to carry on the work even more difficult. It is especially noteworthy that Dr. Reynolds believes in the future of the small liberal arts colleges and is determined to make his contribution toward their preservation. Bates College has remained a small institution by choice. Under the new stewardship the same course will be steered,

25 years ago, 1991
Private business and public service found another spot of common ground — literally — when employees of the Spring Street Shop ‘n Save added plantings of flowering annuals at the Lewiston and Auburn Community Garden sites at each end of the Veterans Memorial Bridge last week. Store Manager Bob Caouette and Customer Counts Committee Chairman Mark Bellevance noted that contribution to the Community Gardens was a perfect activity for the kind of community work intended in Shop ‘n’ Save’s Earth Matters program.

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