10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “Students at Thornton Academy organized a silent protest over what they claim is the elimination of healthy lunch choices in the school’s cafeteria. Student Council President Frank Brancely said while menu modifications are part of the issue, the student body is more concerned that they weren’t consulted or even informed that the changes would be taking place. When they returned from school vacation week in February, students came back to a different cafeteria. Gone, without any explanation, were the salad bars and sandwich station.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Biddeford police booked Raymond Leslie Herrick, 20, of 390 Ferry Road, Saco, in charges of rape, according to Police Chief Edgar Sevigny. Police said the Saco man is being held under $1,000 bail concerning the alleged offense involving a 12- year-old Biddeford girl. Also booked on an assault and battery charge is Robert Bruce Sterling, 22, of Portland Road, Saco. Both men will appear in Saco District Court Monday, police said.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “”Mrs. Hattie S. Hutchins of West street, this city, was arrested about 8 o’clock this morning by Captain Fred S. Doyle of the Biddeford police on a charge alleged by Milford C. Whitmore of Mansfield, Mass., formerly of Kennebunkport. She was arraigned in the police court where she waived the reading of a warrant, pleaded not guilty and was ordered to recognize for the May term of supreme court in the sum of $500. The charge alleges that Mrs. Hutchins, on October 8, 1913, with force and as feloniously, did falsely make, forge and counterweight a certain false, forged and counterfeit written instrument, to wit, an order on Biddeford Savings Bank, which false, forged and counterfeit order was and is of the tenor of $250.”

— Krysteana Scribner