100 years ago, 1915
Mayor Wiseman was on the war path Friday for the people who are tracking the Lewiston city common up with an utter disregard of paths. Friday he notified Chief McCarron to arrest people trespassing on the park, for trespass it is, to wander out of the straight and narrow on the park. “Why it’s a shame.” said the mayor discussing the orders he had given to the chief. “People who know better, policemen, letter carriers, members of the city government, business men, pay no attention to the paths but go streaking criss-cross over that park like the cows in a pasture. I tell you it’s going to stop. I have given Chief McCarron orders to make an example of the people who persist in trespassing there. They ought to know better.”

50 years ago, 1965
A total of 56 area girls tomorrow will participate in the third annual Sandy Bower Ski Slalom events to be held at Auburn’s Lost Valley Ski Area. The first of the events, open to girls up to the age of 18, will get under way at 10 a.m. at the Auburn slopes. Snow making facilities are expected to be in operation tonight for the annual program sponsored by the Auburn Ski Association. The course, which will include 37 gates, is to be set up by Edward Little High School and Webster Junior High School ski coaches, Dick Osgood and Donald Towle.

25 years ago, 1990
A classroom program featuring lasers has won a Poland teacher the honor of being cited for Maine’s outstanding technology program of 1989-90. William Carney, technology education teacher at Poland Community School, is to be guest at a recognition dinner Feb. 9 at the Senator Inn in Augusta. A teacher of industrial arts for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders for the last six years at the Poland school, Carney was nominated by teachers throughout the state who witnessed his creative demonstrations of the use of laser beams as a method for encouraging students to solve problems.

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