10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “The Maine Marine Patrol and the Cape Elizabeth water extraction teams were to resume their efforts off Cape Elizabeth this morning in an attempt to locate a Hollis fisherman since his boat capsized off McKinney Point about noon Wednesday.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “A record number of 485 students registered for classes Wednesday to open the 14th academic year at St. Francis College, Biddeford. This included 177 freshmen who have completed an intensified four-day orientation program.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Pleasing exercises were carried out at the Jefferson Street Free Baptist church this afternoon at the unveiling of the Lafayette tablet presented to the society. The tablet is commemorative of the visit of Marquis Lafayette to this city in 1825 and tells the reader that the great French patriot worshiped in the building on which it is placed, during that visit.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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