10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “Every Wednesday, like clockwork, the students in Linda Cluff ’s Student Enterprise Program at Wells High School make a bank deposit. It’s part of a whole day that the kids spend out of the classroom, learning, through a new “life skills” curriculum, how to live independently. All five of the children in her class have either cognitive or physical limitations that prevent them from attending class full-time with other students in high school.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Biddeford Junior High School eighth graders have taken the differential aptitude test according to Biddeford Testing Coordinator Paul E. Brunelle. The tests were administered to some 150 students by Counselor Burton Trafton. The aptitude measured by the D.A.T. are verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, space relations, mechanical reasoning, clerical speed and accuracy and language usage. The battery is administered for purposes of educational and vocational guidance.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “A meeting at the Saco municipal offices was held Thursday evening to act on the petition of the management of the Colonial theater for the usual licenses. The licenses, three in number, were granted. There has to be a license to give a public exhibition, one to run moving picture apparatus and its equipment is required and all the details will be attended to. The theater expects to begin operations Monday.”

— Krysteana Scribner