100 Years Ago: 1918

Through the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce, a new shoe factory is to be established in Lewiston. The two upper floors of the Levasseur garage on lower Lisbon Street has been secured for the factory and is to employ between 300 and 400 people.

50 Years Ago: 1968

“Crime and Social Revolution” was the subject of an interesting talk given Thursday evening by the Rev. George E. Bullens, pastor of the Auburn United Methodist Church, at a supper meeting of the Androscoggin Business and Professional Women’s Club. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Ulmer Coy at Hackett’s Mills, Auburn. The causes of the current hostility in American society is, prejudice, the Vietnam War, and discrimination, said Mr. Bullens, but he deplored the apparent lack of purpose among the students who are rebelling at various forms of authority. Touching on the riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago. he feels that neither the police or the protesters were fully responsible for the trouble: the two factions must share the blame.

25 Years Ago: 1993

Because today’s society is not easy on parents, the Auburn School Department wants to be. For the third year in a row, the city’s elementary guidance councilors are presenting a series of courses they hope will aid parents who are seeking to improve their parenting skills. “Parents today just don’t have a lot of time to sit and talk with one another about what their kids are doing, and the problems their facing,” Susan Weiss, the guidance counselor at Lake Street School, said recently. “This gives them that chance.” Funded by three grants — one of them for $18,000 from the state Department of Education’s division of alcohol and drug education — the Positive Parenting program has grown considerably since it was first offered. Now, for instance, to hire parents who might be concerned about leaving their little ones alone at home, the organizers have arranged for free childcare at each school. The courses themselves are also free. Noting that nearly one in two children now lives with someone other than a birth parent, Ansley Newton, a guidance counselor at Webster Intermediate School, said “any significant adult” in the child’s life is welcome to attend the classes.

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