100 years ago, 1916
Some of the best ice racing ever witnessed in this vicinity was pulled off on Middle Range Lake Tuesday afternoon by the Poland Driving club. In the first race of the afternoon, Priscilla H., a brown mare owned by Bert Hilton of South Poland, had things all her own way, stepping the last heat in 34 and one-half seconds and apparently having some more left.

50 years ago, 1966
L.K. Parker, superintendent of the Auburn Water and Sewerage Districts, reported Tuesday that crews are finding the frost line now is down to just under four feet. Parker said this frost depth was found late last week when the crew was making an excavation on Bolster Street in New Auburn. He said that after crews had penetrated to about two feet the frozen ground was not as hard although it was frozen to just under four feet. The superintendent said this was in the street but that in the field where there is a good snow covering there is little frost in the ground. The snow covering forms an insulation blanket over the ground.

25 years ago, 1991
An Emmy Award has arrived at WCBB-TV in Lewiston, but only to stay for a while. The local Public Broadcasting Service station shared in the 1990 award as one of six pioneers of a new television service for the blind and near-blind. The Emmy, a little, winged statuette, was awarded for outstanding achievement in engineering development. WCBB-TV shared it with PBS stations in Boston, Texas, Vermont and two clues in Ohio. The stations received their award for pioneering a descriptive video service, or DVS, which parallels the closed-caption subtitle service already offered for the deaf. The service consists of a special audio channel, called a secondary audio program for SAP, broadcasting a verbal description of the action on-screen, including actors’ expressions and body language, stage business, characters’ entrances and exits, costumes, settings and lighting changes.

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