100 Years Ago: 1922

The Lion that has guarded the Court Street entrance of the County Building was removed to a storage house Monday. No other ornament will adorn the entrance. Marble slabs will be placed at each side of the entrance instead.

50 Years Ago: 1972

“Tickets are still available for the annual Policeman’s Ball, but may not long be,” a spokesman for the Auburn Police Department said today. The event will take place this coming Saturday from 8 to 12pm., at the Rollerdrome in New Auburn. Tickets for the event this coming Saturday are available at headquarters, it was noted.

25 Years Ago: 1997

It took nine months from start to finish, it was often painful and certainly it was expensive. At the end, there was a joyous celebration. A baby? No, it is a garden reborn. Members of The McLaughlin Foundation Thursday likened the process of buying the Bernard McLaughlin estate in order to transform It into an educational and cultural center.to the birthing process. Painful but joyful. A process that once begun could not be undone.
The foundation held a press conference at the estate Thursday morning to formally announce the $200,000 purchase of the property on Wednesday and to introduce garden horticulturist Michae! Murphy of West Paris. Lee Daasler of Bolsters Mills, former president of the foundation, took over as a  part-time executive director for the Bernard McLaughlin Garden and Horticulture Center. Andrea Burns was named as foundation president. “We’re interested in growth in more than one way,” Burns said of the botanical project. “We want to see the garden flourish.

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