100 years ago, 1916
Edward Little High School, by defeating Portland High in Auburn Hall last night to the score of 48-27, tied Portland for the prep school championship of Maine. Both teams have been successful, and this is the first game that the Portland boys have lost this season. The game was featured by the fine passing of the Auburn boys, and the heavy scoring of Tribou, who caged 12 from the floor.

50 years ago, 1966
(Photo Caption) This Olympic-type torch was lighted early Wednesday night at the Lost Valley ski area after a torch had been carried from Edward Little High School by five runners to open the annual ELHS winter carnival. Gathered around the torch, Wednesday night, were Key Club members and other ELHS students who participated in a torch-light slalom on the Lost Valley ski slope.

25 years ago, 1991
A hidden camera. A panel truck. A television screen. Two-way radios…. Sounds like a stakeout, doesn’t it? And in a way, it is. Crews from Sewer Tech Inc. of Rockland, Mass., this week were staking out the sewer lines under Sabattus Street in Lewiston, checking on the condition of the old, clay pipes to find out where water, among other things, is leaking in or out. Vincent Deacetis, seated before a television screen, is in charge of the surveillance. He picks up a walkie-talkie connecting him to the men stationed outside the truck. “OK, guys, nice and steady for me,” he says. The camera, mounted on miniature sled runners, begins to move silently along a seemingly vast tunnel. The view is much like that from the cockpit of a jet fighter plane on a video game.

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