10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “Voters will decide the fate of Park Street School after the Board of Selectmen approved the wording of a non-binding referendum question Tuesday night. The question asks, yes or no, ‘Do you favor the Town retaining Park Street School for municipal and community use?’”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “No more skunks sit on stumps in this town (Old Orchard Beach), for the simple reason that after today, no more stumps will be around to sit on. Allied Tree Service crews of Brentwood, N.H. were around town today shaving away the stumps with a stump chipper.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “The annual May Day festival of the Saco Unitarian church will be celebrated on the last Saturday of this month, April 29, at Saco city hall. For a generation, this spring festival with its maypole and children’s dances has been a gala day for young and old.”
— Christopher Murphy and Krysteana Scribner
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