100 years ago, 1916
After November 12, James W. Greeley of Portland, one of the most successful and best known theatrical managers in Maine, will be the lessee of Music Hall and has promised to give local theatre patrons some of the best vaudeville and pictures they have ever seen here. Final papers relating to the lease were passed this week. Mr. Greeley is no stranger in Lewiston and in social, theatrical and other business ways is well known and much liked. His success in the theatrical business is attributed to his popularity and square business methods. He knows the theatrical game from A to Z.

50 years ago, 1966
A Lewiston fuel supply firm, forced to move to a new location as the result of Lewiston’s urban renewal project, obtained three permits in Auburn Tuesday for the establishment of a new operation on Center Street. James D. Callahan and Co. Inc. had sought a variance from the city’s zoning ordinance when denied a permit, but argued that it was in compliance with the ordinance.

25 years ago, 1991
The light plane that crashed into Lake Auburn Friday carried little fuel and poses small risk to the Lewiston-Auburn water supply, said Superintendent Normand Lamie of the Auburn Water District. Nevertheless, emergency steps have been taken to minimize the threat. “I could have wished they’d picked another lake to crash into,” Lamie said. “But if they were going to go in this one, they chose the right place.” Lamie said the crash site — shallow water near an island at the northeast end of the lake — is over a mile from the intake that supplies the two cities’ drinking water. To lessen chances of contaminated water reaching the intake, Lamie said, the dam at the head of Bobbin Mill Brook has been opened, to divert more water flow from the north end of the lake into the Androscoggin River.

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