100 years ago, 1917
City Marshal Nickerson of Auburn is figuring on a lightning rod system for his auto. These electrical storms which have infested the vicinity lately have the marshal sort of worked up, and he opines it would be economical to do this rather than have the car struck and perhaps destroyed.

50 years ago, 1967
Eleven college students from Spain, currently visiting Brunswick under the Experiment in International Living, recently toured the Poland Spring Job Corps Center for Women to learn the methods employed in the United States to assist young women deprived of an education and to visit with the Spanish-speaking corpswomen at the center.

25 years ago, 1992
Armed with $42,000 in grant money to educate homeless teens, a group that’s interested In helping inner-city children is moving ahead with plans to open a community center on Bates Street. The group, which has been meeting for several years, got its start when the St. Peter’s after-school program noticed an increased demand for a place that would offer snacks and safety. Also reaching the same conclusion were staff at Montello School as well as the new Police and Community Enforcement team, which patrols the neighborhood. Representatives from the city, schools, the police, the YWCA intervention program, Head Start, Lewiston Adult Education, Community Concepts, Trinity Episcopal Church and other agencies, will meet Aug. 11 to “take a look at where we want to move from here,” said Shelley Duffle, a counselor at Montello School. The center would be housed on the first floor of 292-294 Bates St., which the Lewiston Housing Authority plans to offer rent-free to agencies that want to provide social services, according to the authority’s director, Sandra Knowles. The rest of the building is to be made over into low-income apartments.

The material in Looking Back is reproduced exactly as it originally appeared, although misspellings and errors made at that time.