10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “A fire in the primary shredder of the Main Energy Recovery Company on Saturday afternoon closed down the facility for several hours, while a crew of 22 firefighters worked to extinguish the flames.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “‘I will never go blueberrying again,’ Frank Regina said today as he sat in his bed at the Webber Hospital after a three day ordeal in woodland and brush in Clifford Park.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Great Chebeague island people contemplate a wild cat hunt, for reports that such an unwelcome visitor is with them have been made by a large number and, although the wild cat, if it is such, has made no effort to attack any one, it is understood that a party is being formed for a systematic search for the intruder.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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