100 years ago, 1918
The first ice racing under the management of the Lewiston and Auburn Driving Club will be held on the Androscoggin River a week from Friday if the weather doesn’t interfere with the plans. The club has been trying to get the winter racing underway for several weeks but first the intense cold and later the snow has interrupted the plans. It is expected that it would be possible to scrape the track and get it into condition for races this Friday but after yesterday’s snowstorm, the task would be too great to be attempted and the anxious drivers will have to wait another week before trying conclusions on the ice. There are some fast horses in Lewiston stables this winter, some of the fastest in the state, and some keen races, as well as matched events, will be staged before the season ends.
50 years ago, 1968
Mrs. Walter Sargent of Auburn was honored at a meeting of Girl Scout leaders of River Valley Neighborhood held Monday evening at the High Street Congregational Church. Mrs. Sargent has served as a Scout leader for 40 years, all of them with the troop at the Auburn Methodist Church, and was presented a pin commemorating her 40 years of service, Mrs. Alton Savage, neighborhood chairman, conducted an investiture of new leaders, rededication ceremonies and the presentation of numerals in candle-lighting ceremonies.
25 years ago, 1993
In a control room that looks like the Starship Enterprise, complete with computers providing constant data and TV monitors, operators hold joysticks, but they’re not playing a game. Each day those joysticks are used hundreds of times to move tons of trash from a pit in Mid-Maine Waste Action Corps’ trash-to-energy facility in Auburn to the hoppers where the trash is sent to its final end — the incinerator. Final construction details are still being addressed on the $43 million facility, but trash from 12 communities has been burned for more than a year without any major problems. Currently, two boilers are burning about 150-200 tons of trash each day, said Wayne York, the solid waste manager for the waste action corporation.
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