100 years ago, 1913
With the thought of a new city building in their mind, the committee on public property of the city of Auburn have advertised for bids on the building on Court street, Auburn, containing Auburn Hall, three stores and the Auburn police station, which the city now owns. Beside this piece of property, the city has other real estate for which they have no use, or will have no use for in a few months. There are several gravel pits, no longer useful for that purpose which are now to be disposed of as farm land, and within a short time the old Chamberlain school will be forsaken for the one which is now being built. It is thought that the amount realized by the sale of this real estate will make a sizeable nest egg for a fund to build the greatly desired city building. The Auburn municipal offices are scattered about a large section of the city.

50 years ago, 1963
The City of Auburn has no immediate plans for developing a public boat landing at Lake Auburn. When the city and State reached an agreement on the re-construction of Center Street, one of the provisions of the agreement was that the contractor would provide the fill needed to fill in the area just off the westerly side of the southerly end of the causeway which carries Route 4 over the lake and separates the lake proper from the outlet pond. This provision was fulfilled and during the past summer while the construction was in process, a great amount of fill was dumped into the area, creating a wide flat area which formerly was a small inlet and marshy ground.

25 years ago, 1988
Shaw’s Supermarkets has donated two coolers once used in its Promenade Mall store to the Good Shepherd Food Bank, which is trying to raise money to install a new walk-in freezer at its Lisbon Street warehouse. The 1,000-square-foot freezer unit is expected to be installed by mid-December, according to JoAnn Pike, the food bank’s director. By donating the used coolers, Shaw’s lowered the food bank’s cost by $25,000, Pike said.

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