10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “Police dogs lost the scent of an armed robber Wednesday night behind a dry cleaners on Saco Avenue, leading them to believe that’s where he had parked his getaway car. According to Police Department officials, a masked man entered Potvins Market on 211 Saco Ave. brandishing a knife and demanded cash from the two clerks inside the convenience store just after 10 p.m. Wednesday night.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “A bridge-highway project in Buxton was among jobs awarded to low bidders at the State Highway Commission Wednesday. A bridge and roughly half a mile of Routes 22 and 112 will be reconstructed … The road improvement will increase sight distances at the intersections.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “In a raid at a tenement house at the corner of Third street and Old Orchard avenue, this morning between 2 and 3 o’clock, the Old Orchard police made a good haul and arrested three men and two women and got a tress suit case which contained a fake pool outfit, including two telephones, a telegrapher’s ticker, as well as paraphernalia such as is used in the fake business.”
— Amanda Melanson
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