100 years ago 1918:
“There is no reason,” says President West of the Chicago Park Association, who is making a plan for Auburn, “why the city shouldn’t look forward to more than the average rapidity of growth. Some of Auburn’s advantages which he has noted during his survey to determine future possibilities and present needs are these: within fifty miles of the city is more than 50 percent of the population of Maine. Nearby is the abundant water power that could be enough electricity to carry on any number and variety of industries.
50 years ago: 1968
An explanation of Auburn’s Code Enforcement Program in the Goff Hill area of the city was presented Wednesday night at a general meeting of the residents of the area and Arthur Clark, city planner-engineer, told the crowd of close to 100 persons that the program was one designed to encourage improvement of the entire area. In a presentation at the opening of the session, Clark explained that under the CEP plan the Federal government makes a grant to the city to improve public facilities in the project area in the hope it then encourages owners in the area to improve their properties. Clark explained that there are loans available to property owners at the low-interest rate of 3 percent, to be used for property improvement and for those who under no circumstance could afford to make improvements there are outright grants available. Clark pointed out that the project already underway at the reconstruction of Court and Lake streets is part of the project. He told the group the much talked about Union Street Bypass could become a reality as a result of CEP.
25 years ago: 1993
The crowd that pressed close around the eternal flame was flush with children — from babes in strollers to restless teenagers — as parents tried to describe what John F. Kennedy meant to them. On the 30th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, many of those who streamed up the hill at Arlington National Cemetery were born after Kennedy’s death. Some were brought by parents who said Kennedy had changed their lives; they hoped to pass the torch to yet another generation. “I loved him and I remember him, and I want my children to remember,” said Bobble Monahan.
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