10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “Sanford schools will make do with one less music teacher this fall in a move some parents and students say will affect the quality of programs offered to the town’s youngest students. Following nearly two hours of testimony from parents and students urging them to keep the status quo, the five member School Committee voted unanimously Monday to eliminate one position.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “The work of scribe is painstaking and complete accuracy is of utmost important in the course of his unique work, that of restoring the Sacred Torahs. The meticulous task of retelling two Torahs at the Etxc Chaim Synagogue, Biddeford, has been undertaken by Rabbi Isaac M. Eisenbach, a scribe from Jerusalem, Israel, working with the specially sharpened quill needed for the operation.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “The lifeless body of Wilberty Guibault, who was better known as ‘Frenchy,’ was discovered this morning lying on a bed in a room at No. 11 Main Street. Arthur Greenwood, who runs the boarding house, called the chief of police and reported the incident to be sure the man was dead. The medical examiner, who found he had been released from Alfred jail not days earlier, had gotten drunk, and possibly died of heart failure.”

— Krysteana Scribner