100 years ago, 1917
Benjamin H. Keegan, former captain of night police, now acting chief of police by order of Mayor Charles P. Lamaire of Lewiston, organized his department Tuesday, following the decision of the law court declaring invalid the emergency clause of the act creating the police commission. Mayor Lemaire, smiling, happy and jubilant, began a vigorous campaign that will extend through several sections of the State to get 4,000 signatures to his petition for a referendum. Mayor Lemaire stated that he would appoint as “special policemen” the patrolmen needed to complete the department. The organization is but temporary, and comes through his rights as chief of police vested in him in the city charter. The police force that was in charge Tuesday will police the city over the Fourth, supplemented as Captain Keegan sees fit.

50 years ago, 1967
“The Important thing now is to get a ‘yes’ vote in that referendum election,” Lewiston Rep. Louis Jalbert, basking in the pleasure of seeing a 20-year-old fight for a third bridge between Lewiston and Auburn nearing success, said today. Late in the session Saturday, the Maine Senate approved legislation calling for a $4.5 million bridge, a toll-free structure which would be located at a site still to be selected across the Androscoggin.

25 years ago, 1992
A faster and easier way of working with patients who have special nutritional needs or restrictions has recently become available at Central Maine Medical Center. Computrition, a state-of-the-art computer system that not only measures and analyzes the food patients eat but also provides menu plans and recommendations on individualized printouts, has been added to the Food Service Department. Jean Elie, CMMC’s chief dietitian, said the new program is useful for patients with heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, high cholesterol or obesity. The new computer-based program determines a diet’s nutritional balance by using a database that includes 16,000 food items.

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