10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “Countering a U.S. Education Department rejection of Maine’s student testing system under the No Child Left Behind Act, state Education Commissioner Sue Gendron this week submitted new arguments and asked for a meeting with federal officials.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “President Johnson, deploring the ‘shocking tragedy’ on the University of Texas campus, said today ‘we must press urgently’ for a federal gun control law.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “A woman who is boarding at the Lafayette Hotel, Old Orchard, caused quite a commotion last Thursday afternoon, when she made the announcement that her jewelry, which she valued at $4,000, had been stolen from her room at the hotel. Chief of Police Robinson was notified and he and Officer Fred H. Googins made an investigation…when the woman… happened to think of her handbag and upon looking in it discovered the jewelry just as she had placed it early in the afternoon.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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