100 years ago, 1916
Supt. Bowie and Engineer Hullett of the L. A. W. St. Ry., are spending the weekend at Tacoma. As a matter of fact, their stay there may be of indefinite duration. It all depends upon the wind. They will continue to stay right where they are until such time as they may be able to construct crude snow shoes, thereby supplying their own conveyances and motive power for a trip to town. It should be stated that they are not staging, voluntarily, a “primitive man” act, neither are they seeking the “cold air” treatment. They are simply marooned, as it were. They left Lewiston on a morning car to visit their ramps. They planned to stop over a car, but changed their plans when the snow began to drift and the cars stopped running.

50 years ago, 1966
A frightened deer being chased by dogs, appeared on Quimby Street in Lewiston today, but the animal fled into the woods in the vicinity of the Maine Turnpike. Lewiston police reported that the fair-size doe jumped a brook in order to get away from the dogs. Officer Normand Poulin investigated. A similar incident occurred in the Montello Street section of the city yesterday.

25 years ago, 1991
Classes for dislocated workers began Monday night in an informal partnership forged by Husson College South and Mountain Valley Training. “Three months ago we saw some indication that Husson was looking for more expansion into this area,” said Gil Ward, Mountain Valley Training’s program director. “We were trying to provide services” to clients displaced by recent plant closings, and a program of evening and Saturday classes resulted, he said. Husson for a decade as part of the College on College South has been holding classes at Lewiston High School Saturday program, said Director Lindon Christie Jr.

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