HIT: To the Auburn NAACP chapter's celebration of the national organization's 100th anniversary. The local chapter hosted an event Thursday night at the Booker T. Washington Community Center in Auburn.

The party was a chance for people to celebrate the civil rights organization's many accomplishments at the national and local levels. The social gathering was a time to remember those who fought in the struggle for equality.

The Auburn NAACP isn't finished with the festivities; it will also hold a banquet to recognize its own 41st anniversary in May.

MISS: To the arrest of a pair of Pennsylvania residents on charges that they allegedly stole anhydrous ammonia from a farm in Ledyard earlier this week.

The chemicals can be used to make the potent drug methamphetamine. Over the years, quite a few people from Pennsylvania have been caught trying to steal anhydrous ammonia, used in fertilizer, from farms in upstate New York.

For the most part, local law enforcement has been able to keep the meth problem under reasonable control in this region, at least compared with the northern tier of Pennsylvania. We hope this case is not an indication of a new crime wave.

HIT: To the progress on a residential development project in Auburn. The Logan Street Lofts project is taking an old piano factory and transforming it into apartments and townhouses.

The Auburn Industrial Development Authority authorized a payment in lieu of taxes plan for the project to assist the developers, who are making a substantial investment of their own.

The best news that came out of the AIDA meeting this week, though, was the report from developers that the project is on track to be finished at the end of this year or early next year. The new dwellings could help spur some opportunities for economic growth in that neighborhood and nearby downtown Auburn.