100 years ago, 1916
À street fight on Main Street last evening attracted a large crowd, as street fights usually do. Finally the patrol was called and the scrappers, who evidently had imbibed too freely of red eye, were given a ride to the station. No one was hurt and no glass broken.

50 years ago, 1966
Auburn School Supt. Lewis E. Webber called attention Tuesday night to a vote taken earlier this year by the Auburn Superintending School Committee to restrict parking on the baseball diamond at Walton Junior High School. Webber said he felt citizens should be reminded of this in view of the first football game of the season for Edward Little High School at Walton Field. The Eddies are playing Brunswick this Saturday afternoon. The ban on parking on the Walton baseball diamond came as a result of damage caused to the field by the motor vehicles. Webber said the ban on parking on the baseball diamond will mean it will be necessary for more on-street parking. He said authorities are considering ways to control the traffic situation which the on-street parking will create.

25 years ago, 1991
Auburn City Councilors Monday will hear a proposal from the town of Minot that could have the city collecting recyclables and rubbish for its neighbor. According to a memo from Selectman Robert O’Connor, Minot would like to negotiate a three-year contract for door-to-door collection of recyclable materials as well as a separate three-year contract for door-to-door trash collection.

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