100 years ago, 1913
Lewiston’s great white way will be a blaze of light again on Thursday night, rain or no rain. Supt. Guimond of the lighting station makes this declaration positively. When the crew which has been at work on the lighting station quit work Wednesday night they left a gravel hole in the roof. When the rain came on in the night, water poured through this hole in torrents. It so happened that the hole was directly over the transformer and the weather rained down on that piece of apparatus. Realizing the danger of the condition, Supt. Guimond decided to shut the plant down, which he did about 1 a.m. Thursday morning, after which the city was without lights. Thursday the gravel hole was plugged up, so that the roof is again tight and that night the station will run and the new ornamental lights, as well as those in the residential sections, will shine at night with dazzling brilliancy.
50 years ago, 1963
It was learned last night that an Everett, Mass., shoe manufacturing concern may take over space in the former Continental Mills property in Lewiston and that it already has been in conference with representatives of the Lewiston and Auburn Shoeworkers Protective Association. It was reported that leases are to be signed soon whereby Eagle Shoe Co. will take over some 30,000 square feet of floor space at the former textile plant and may take over an even larger area in six months.
25 years ago, 1988
A new name and a more ambitious program mark efforts by L-A Arts, a group that has boosted the fine arts in central Maine for nearly 15 years, to reflect the evolution of the community it serves. Known until last year as LPL Plus APL, the group has a national reputation as a “model Community-based arts program,” said Executive Director Katherine Knowles. With a budget hovering around $250,000, up 20 percent from the 1987-88 level, most of the funds go to programming. L-A Arts employs three full-time people and one part-time person.
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