10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “Good offense, defense and excellent pitching is the recipe for winning softball games at any level, and on Friday, June 30th, Saco Sport and Fitness used all three to capture its second 9/10 Championship in the last two years with a 19-9 victory over Maine Energy.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “An Atomic Energy Commission staff report contends that the United States is falling behind the Soviet Union and the rest of the world in the quest to harness peacefully the power of the hydrogen bomb.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Fire was discovered in the fruit store of Harry Nanos at 71 Elm street, Smiths corner, Friday night, a few minutes after 11 o’clock, and while the firemen were fighting the blaze, which was confined almost entirely to the wall of the store facing Smith street, they came across a large quantity of matches within the wall.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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