10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “At the crest of a mountain ridge that hugs northern Maine’s border with Canada and shares names with the potato-growing town below, what will become New England’s biggest wind-power development is quietly taking shape. A road following the spine of Mars Hill Mountain has been blazed through the thick woods and now connects in dot-to-dot fashion 28 flattened sites where 262-foot-high wind turbines will rise.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Members of the Rochembeau Club and the Dames Rochembeau will meet at the South Street, Biddeford, hall at 10 a.m. Sunday. At that time a special bus will leave for the annual American Snowshoe Union Summer Festival which will be held at the Catholic War Veterns Field, Goffstown Road, Manchester, N.H.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “Lewis J. Marshall, necktie manufacturer of Lisbon Falls, who at various times has declared himself supreme dictator of the world and other ludicrous titles, was Friday sentenced by Judge Hale to two years in the Atlanta Penitentiary on a charge of using the mails to defraud.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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