100 years ago, 1917
Dreams of a trolley road that would serve the East Avenue section of Lewiston is fair to come true. G. W. Bowie, superintendent of the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville street railway announced Tuesday that if certain results were accomplished that construction of a new loop would be started this spring. The new loop would start from Lisbon Road near South Avenue at the intersection of and striking across to Webber Avenue. That would call for the construction of about a mile and a half of new track and roadbed, in addition of course, to the installation of switches, and so forth.

50 years ago, 1967
Work is underway for what is hoped to be an annual event in Lewiston, the Central Maine Sports and Outdoors Show, scheduled for Lewiston Memorial Armory March 30 to April 2, with the Androscoggin County Fish and Game Association Inc. as the local sponsoring organization. The show is being produced professionally by the same concern which put on the recent sportsman’s show at Portland, the Eastern States Trade Shows Inc.

25 years ago, 1992
At nine years old, Ian Ashland is pretty sure he wants to be a landscape architect some day. “I’d build playgrounds for kids less fortunate, like us who only have a slide and monkey bars,” the fourth-grader at Lewiston’s Longley Elementary School said. Ian has plans for that slide and monkey bars behind the Multi-Purpose Center, which houses the Longley School. He was busily perfecting those plans as he pored over a blueprint at Wednesday’s open community workshop aimed at getting ideas for a new playground. “If you un-cement the slide and put it over to the side,” Ian advises, “people can use it. Putting the slide in front of the hill was a bad choice. Same with the monkey bars. Kids come down that hill and BAM! You should also smooth out that hill.”

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