100 years ago, 1917
Athletics at Bates are booming, despite the fact that hockey is the only sport which is creating a noise. Mike Ryan is working hard with his relay men, getting them in trim for the B. A. A. games, and within a short time Soldier Adams will probably get the fencers together.

50 years ago, 1967
The Maine Pomological Society has made plans for a spectacular exhibition of Maine apples at Lewiston Memorial Armory, Wednesday, Jan. 18. In the display, named “Apples Then and Now,” there will be apple varieties common to store-cheese-and-cracker-munching news-dispensing townsfolk of another day when they gathered around the wood burning stove at the corner store. There will be Nodheads, Fameuse, Rhode Island Greenings, Pumpkin Sweet and a host of other varieties that have lost the battle for favor by modern homemakers. Also, the best of today’s varieties currently common to home-table fruit bowls will present their unblemished bloom.

25 years ago, 1992
Auburn is embarking on a project that, based on city estimates, could attract in excess of $6 million in private investment and generate more than 350 jobs. The fate of the proposed Kittyhawk Industrial Park is now in the hands of the federal Economic Development Administration, according to Roland Miller, community services director. Earlier this month, the city submitted a grant application to secure some acquisition money and 60 percent of the cost for infrastructure improvements needed to create a 50-acre industrial park on land currently owned by developer Paul Sasseville.

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