10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “A Berwick couple was killed and a Parsonsfield couple sustained serious injuries in a three-vehicle crash on snow-covered Route 202 Sunday morning.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “(Old Orchard Beach) Town Manager Leon Jones said today he hopes a quorum of Town Meeting Members will be present at tonight’s special Town Meeting. Members will be asked to vote to authorize the town to borrow $75,000 for payment of architectural fees and equipment and construction costs at the high school and for the transferral of $3,700 from the Memorial Parking Lot revenues to be used in the construction of a police headquarters on the ground floor of Town Hall.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “The flurry of snow Sunday has got some of the horsemen going in the two cities, who, according to one of them, ‘have an itching’ to take their fast ones out on the speedway and settle who owns the speediest one in the two cities.”
— Angelo J. Verzoni
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