100 years ago, 1911

A number of Lewiston pedestrians who were out at about midnight Saturday received somewhat of a fright when they saw a form in white moving about. One or two men got near enough to see that it was a man clad only in night apparel. The man wandered about upper Pine Street and across to Sabattus Street, the police finally finding him and taking him back to the Ste. Marie General Hospital from which institution he had left by means of a window.

50 years ago, 1961

A passing motorist summoned Lewiston firemen to the Main Street fire substation yesterday morning when he saw flames in the kitchen while the men assigned to the station were out making sprinkler system checks. An LFD spokesman said Lt. Eugene Michaud’s lamb stew, which he had left on the stove, had boiled over while the men were out. Damage was minor.

25 years ago, 1986

Parents of Lewiston High School students will no longer have to stand alone when they make their feelings known to administrators and teachers.

With the formation of a new Lewiston Parents Association, mothers and fathers will have”input as a group rather than taking the Lone Ranger approach,” said Lucien Bedard, temporary chairman of the group.

The association, an outgrowth of parent meetings that followed last spring’s walkout by hundreds of LHS students, will hold its first meeting on Sept. 18.