100 Years Ago: 1924

Three patrol units of two men each, equipped with three automobiles, will go on duty June 1 to augment the United States customs service along the northern frontier of Maine to suppress the illegal transportation of contraband material across the Canadian border, Dr. Charles M. Sleeper, Collector of Customs, announced today.

Unit headquarters will be at Van Buren, Fort Fairfield and Houlton.

50 Years Ago: 1974

The men who pick up Lewiston’s wastes are unhappy because officials of the Lewiston Public Works Department won’t allow them an opportunity to wash up before taking their coffee breaks, and, in protest, the city’s garbage collectors started today what amounts to a ‘slowdown’, which means some of the curbside waste and trash may not be picked up at the end of the day.

25 Years Ago: 1999

Cancer. It isn’t always a death edict anymore.

Dozens of cancer survivors will demonstrate that on Friday during the Relay For Life walk in Auburn. Area cancer survivors will send “an affirmation of life” when they join for several hours of fun and fundraising at Walton School field this coming Friday and Saturday.

The sixth annual “Relay For Life” sponsored by the American Cancer Society opens at 6 p.m. Friday, May 14. As in the past, the Relay will begin with cancer survivors walking, running or “wheelchairing” at least the first lap in honor of their own personal fight with cancer and the progress they have made, and to signify to others that they can beat cancer.

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