10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “Plans to install a fiberoptic cable system throughout the city, connecting 10 public buildings to an updated communications network, are moving ahead. ‘The cable that brings us our TV will also bring us our super-Internet,’ said Curt Koehler, (Biddeford) city finance director, in a presentation to the School Committee Tuesday night.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Members of Biddeford Girl Scout Troop 95 worked on their Story Teller badge requirements during yesterday’s meeting in the Scout Hall, Pool Street, Biddeford. In the course of the meeting each girl described a place she had visited and it was announced there will be no meeting next week.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Deputy Sherriffs Thomas Cullinan and Granville H. Murphy had a warrant to search the downstairs tenement at 4 Water St. Saturday afternoon, and when they went into the building they saw a woman making a hasty exit, and suspecting that it was a move on her part to get away from there, the two deputies gave chase and saw her throw away two half-pint bottles of whiskey which the woman had in her apron, and which they took charge of. A charge of illegal possession was preferred by the Deputy again Mrs. Menard.”

— Christopher Murphy and Krysteana Scribner