10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “Mosquito control has been deemed unjustifiable by the selectmen, who voted 3-2 on Tuesday evening to discontinue working with Municipal Pest Management Services Incorporated. On July 7, Pest Services will no longer be surveying the land in Wells to contain mosquitos.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “The national chairman of the U.S. AAU Track and Field Committee says America’s female athletes continue to show improvement. But June Bellew of Menle Park, Calif., thinks the sport needs a little glamorizing in the field events to give it the added push necessary to pull even with the Russian gals.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “A faulty compass caused the three-masted schooner Donna T. Briggs late last night to go ashore on an inside point on Ash island in Mussel Ridge channel. Today she was hard and fast on the rocks and filled at high tide.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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