10 years ago

“About eight York County Jail supervisors will be eligible for part of a $75,000 settlement, representing a portion of overtime hours they could have worked during a period when the department banned some types of overtime by supervisory staff. York County Commissioners agreed to a settlement of up to $75,000 for the supervisors after Teamsters Local 340 indicated they would take the matter to arbitration.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “A local youth died instantly when he was decapitated as a car containing five teenagers was demolished as it slammed into a tree on Seaview Avenue in Saco last night. According to Saco Police, George C. Boucouvalas, 15, of 122 Franklin St., Saco died when the car in which he was a passenger failed to make a slight turn at a high rate of speed and hit a tree which sheered off part of the left side of the car and threw him to the roadway.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Manager Frederick E. Code of the Forest Paper Co. of Yarmouth has announced that the employees who stood by them in the recent strike will receive an extra cash payment on Oct. 13, ‘which could be considered as their part up to Dec. 1 of the advance which all might have had if the mills had been kept running.’ Mr. Code also states that in the case of new employes or strikers re-employed there will hereafter be no provision for pensions, and intimates that these men have lost probable advance in wages by their action.”

— Ryder Schumacher