100 years ago, 1916
Special service to the Maine State Fair at the Lewiston fairgrounds has been arranged this week by both the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway and the Maine Central Railroad. The electric railway will run half hour service to Sabattus, and on the main line extra cars on the Mechanic Falls, Turner and all local lines and will run cars to the Fair Grounds every few minutes in groups of three or four. The Maine Central will maintain a ten minute service between the Auburn station and the Fair Grounds, beginning at 7:15 p.m. All Maine Central trains, with the exception of the Bar Harbor express, stop at the grounds.

50 years ago, 1966
Lewiston police put on their fall uniforms Sunday as temperatures began to drop with the colder season nearing. Police officers put away their short-sleeve summer shirts and donned the long-sleeve shirt with ties. On the morning watch, some officers even started wearing the blue blouse. An official noted the department has also changed from the white to the blue caps.

25 years ago, 1991
(Editorial) Schools opened in Lewiston Tuesday in a fashion that will be long-remembered. President George Bush came to town, visited Farwell School and Lewiston High School and left an indelible mark on the city in that brief time. The main point he seemed to make at the two schools was that improvement in the education system here and elsewhere needs a grass-roots movement. While Bush pointed out that more federal funds are being provided to education than in years past, the message clearly was not to look to government all the time to solve the problems: “If our schools fail us, we can’t blame Washington. We can’t blame Augusta. We must blame ourselves for betraying our children.”

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