10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “Biddeford High School may be a small community, full of familiar faces. But this year – with seven sets of twins in the new freshman class – students are likely doing double takes in the hallway, thinking twice before they address their classmates by name.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “A Biddeford youth escaped injury when his car went off the road and was demolished yesterday afternoon. According to Saco Police, Rocky A. Littlefield, 16, of 39 Crescent St., Biddeford was travelling west on the Boom Road when he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and hit the soft shoulder of the road. The car travelled 150 feet in the ditch.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “The Daughters of 1812, state of Maine, are to present a memorial for the Wadsworth Longfellow mansion on Congress Street, Portland, in honor of Alexander Scammell Wadsworth, who was a naval hero of the war of 1812 and a noted Maine man.”
— Ryder Schumacher
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