10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “International fame is nothing new to Robert Fische, chief-owner of Mabel’s Lobster Claw Restaurant in Kennebunkport. Once featured on the cover of Time Magazine and other various widely-circulated publications, the small Ocean Avenue eatery is well known as a local favorite of Pres. George H.W. Bush and his family when they vacation at Walkers Point.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Testimony before the Maine Intergovernmental Relations Commission indicates that many Maine communities are confused about federal aid programs because of duplication among federal and state agencies. South Portland City Manager Vernal Allen told a commissions hearing Tuesday that to clear away confusion an agency needed to advise municipal officials on procedures for participation in federal programs.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “As the result of an investigation by Charles Roux, business agent for the Allied Building Trades council, the road being worked on the highway between Portland and Saco, he called off the union engineers who are employed on the job for the alleged reason that convicts are being worked on the job in violation of the law, in that theory are being taken out of Cumberland county and worked over the York county line.”

— Krysteana Scribner