100 years ago, 1917
There has been no change in the local sugar situation, although some of the merchants expect partial relief by the latter part of the week. However, they explain, there is nothing certain about it. A great many families in the city are entirely out of sugar and in a few instances, at least, candy has been bought with which to sweeten their coffee. There are other families, it is reported, who have from one to four barrels stored away for their own use.

50 years ago, 1967
It was cold outside today in the Lewiston-Auburn area but there was one spot where it was hot — hot enough to make some workmen think that a bulldozer might catch fire. Firemen were called out to the city dump off the River Road, Lewiston, when the bulldozer was reported on fire. It turned out that the large machine was being used to push smoldering wastes over a slope when it stalled right over a bed of hot coals. Afraid the machinery might catch fire, the workmen called the Fire Department. The firemen arrived in time to water down the coals. No damage was reported to the expensive machinery.

25 years ago, 1992
Androscoggin County commissioners Monday voted not to give financial aid to the Town of Sabattus for state-ordered reconstruction of a municipal bridge. “It’s not the county’s responsibility nor the county’s practice to assist municipalities in maintaining and constructing roadways that are not county property,” Commissioner Carol Boyce said at Monday’s meeting. On Oct. 27 Sabattus Selectman Theodore P. Curran wrote to the commissioners requesting the county’s help in funding the replacement of Jordan Bridge located on Old Lisbon Road.

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