100 years ago, 1917
The attendance at the Lewiston Daily Sun’s wartime Cooking School which opened yesterday afternoon in New Odd Fellows Hall, Auburn, was very gratifying. It was a gathering of housewives eager to learn all they could along the line of food conservation, and from the enthusiastic comments heard on every side, they all got what they went for. Mrs. Alice Dynes Feuling of Chicago is the instructor, a woman of pleasing personality, who has something to say and knows how to say it in a way that comes home to her hearers.

50 years ago, 1967
Support for another effort to gain a third bridge between Auburn and Lewiston was forthcoming Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Androscoggin Area Development Corporation. An effort will be made at the coming special session of the 103rd Legislature to introduce another bill to gain the third bridge, and the AADC indicated its support of the measure and authorized Frank S. Hoy, corporation president, to continue his efforts in behalf of the bridge project. A fire in Lewiston last Saturday afternoon, which resulted in North Bridge being closed for a time, has emphasized, in the opinion of the supporters of the third bridge, the need for such a structure.

25 years ago, 1992
The Downtown Development & Management Corp. in Lewiston is alive, well and seeking new members among the hundreds of businesses and property owners operating in the heart of the city. That’s the word from Philip St. Pierre, president of the group’s board of directors, who has announced that a mail-based membership drive will begin this week. “A lot of people thought we went by the wayside, but we didn’t,” St. Pierre said. However, the organization has undergone major revamping since May, when the City Council voted to abolish the Downtown Development District and the property surtax that funded the organization’s annual budget, which was $73,700 for the 1992 fiscal year.

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