100 years ago, 1910

NOTICE To Automobile Drivers and Owners. Any persons violating this ordinance in the city limits of Lewiston will be prosecuted.

Section 8, Chapter 36 of Revised Ordinances: “No person shall ride or drive in any highway, street, townway or public passageway in the city in such a manner as to endanger or unreasonably incommode passengers, or at a rate of speed exceeding five miles per hour.

50 years ago, 1960

The Lewiston Public Works Department yesterday completed repairs to a cave-in near 700 Lisbon St.

A sewer service line broke at its point of connection with the main line, causing a portion of the road to cave in. The spot where the road buckled is just southerly of the railroad crossing near the Lewiston Division of Pepperell Manufacturing Co.

25 years ago 1985

Phil J. Roy has filed a petition to rezone a portion of the Bleachery Hill area of Lewiston from Residential 1 to Apartment.

Both Roy’s attorney and the city planning staff believe the present zoning of this area is “inappropriate.” They even used the same word to describe it.

Now it’s up to the Planning Board to decide whether this land should be rezoned to an apartment designation.