100 Years Ago: 1922

The City Manager of Auburn announced that he received notification from the State Highway Commission Friday afternoon of confirmation of the State Aid road work to be done in Auburn this summer. This work will include the completion of Minot Avenue pavement, where it leaves of at Third Avenue, as far as the “Six Corners.” It is of the bituminous macadam type. The State highway from Auburn to Portland will also be constructed from the power station, going toward Poland Spring for a distance of one mile. This road will be of the same constructions as the Mechanic Falls Road.

50 Years Ago: 1972

Local Olympic skier Bob Kendall will be honored at an appreciation night Thursday at Lost Valley Ski Area. Kendall is expected home from Lake Placid. N.Y., where he is competing in the World Student Games, in time to attend with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Kendall and his seven brothers and sisters, all of them front-rank competitive skiers. Kendall and Jim Miller were the only competitors from Maine at the recent Winter games in Sapporo, Japan. Both were on the Nordic combined squad on the US team.

25 Years Ago: 1997

A group of talented young dancers will perform “Riverdance” style Celtic dancing as the special guests of the  MAGIC Pops Chorus this weekend. The teenagers — Shannon and Cody Mercier, Rebecca Douglas, Rebecca Hall, Deneice Martin, Renee Ouellette, Monica Michaud, Melissa Brochu, and Amy Brissette — are all students at the Ellen Cooper Dance Studio. They are members of the Pine Tree Cloggers, a group that performs Appalachian-style clogging.

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