10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “Ongoing sanitary surveys on the Little River watershed have found four possible contributing sources to the water quality issues at Goose Rocks Beach, according to a Department of Environmental Protection report. Since November, John Glowa, an environmental specialist with the DEP, has been testing sites along the Biddeford side of Little River, which discharges into the Goose Rocks Beach area, This past summer the beach was found to have high levels of bacteria, promoting several beach closures.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “A five-year-old Biddeford boy, Thomas Warner of Hills Beach, received bruises yesterday when he was bumped by a vehicle operated by Louis N. Bergeron, 59, of Kennebunkport. Bergeron told police that he was headed from Hills Beach toward St. Francis College when the boy came out of a blind driveway and hit the front of the car.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Mrs. Laura B. Whitten, formerly of Saco but now of Portland, was unable to give any definite reason or explanation in the superior court at Portland Wednesday as to why her husband, Almerion W. Whitten of Saco, left her and her three children at Saco on May 27, 1912. It was also brought out that the children have since become wards of the state, having been taken by Mrs. Lydia W. Rice of Saco when state agent for York County.”

— Krysteana Scribner