Creek Dump Pollutes Groundwater Near Saco
Residents along Foss Road report worsening groundwater contamination from the old Saco dump. Tests show pollution migrating to a stream on Earle Boothby property and may be spreading toward Ronald Dallaire’s land. City plans a water hole and potential line extension as council meets to discuss the extension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Morrison
Saco
Foss Road
E.C. Jordan
Jordan
James Atwell
Earle
June Boothby
Oxton Road
Boothby
John Dexter
Maynard Cousens
Cousens
Ronald Dallaire
Boothbys
Samuel Zaidin
Dallaire
Turnpike sniper drama ends without injuries
Police investigate a noontime sniper shooting on the Maine Turnpike near Kennebunk. Three vehicles were hit and a fourth fired upon. no injuries reported though drivers Richard Blosser and John Weglage identified. Shots from about 80 feet could have killed occupants. witnesses and footprints are being reviewed. Authorities urge tips to state police.
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Kennebunk
Maine Turnpike
Robert Nichols
Turnpike
Richard Blosser
Camp Hill
Pennsylvania
John Weglage
Holliston
Mass
Maguire Road
Nichols
Stevens
Wells
Ogunquit
Scarborough
Tax bills and new mill rate awaited by Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach set September 10 as the tax due date and kept a 10 percent interest rate on delinquent taxes for the new year. Town Assessor Bernard Emery awaits the certified municipal and school budget to determine the mill rate and finalize tax bills, about 5 000 in total, to be mailed in early July. Council members debated raising the rate to 12 percent but preferred maintaining relief for burdened taxpayers while borrowing on anticipated taxes.
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Old Orchard Beach
Town Hall
Bernard Emery
Emery
Frank Manduca
Anduca
E. Emerson Cummings
Thomas Lee
John Litwhnett
Richard Marshall
Executions alleged as trigger for U.S. intervention in Lebanon
Palestinian guerrillas and Lebanese allies arrest members of the Lebanese Socialist Revolutionary Organization over the killings of U.S. Ambassador Francis Meloy Jr. and two others. Meloy, 59, and colleagues were shot near Beirut's no-man's land as U.S. forces monitor a volatile civil war. U.S. and British officials assess evacuation plans while Arab leaders condemn the attacks and urge restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beirut
Lebanon
U.S
Francis E. Meloy Jr
al Fatah
Lebanese Socialist Revolutionary Organization
Bank of America
Meloy
Robert Waring
Zoh
Arab League
Washington
Yasir Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Kamal Jumblatt
State Department
United States
Guadalcanal
Cyprus
Ford
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
L. Dean Brown
Brown
G. McMurtry Godley
Waring
Elias Sarkis
No Man’s Land
Robert Funseth
Funseth
On This Date in History and a West LA Pipeline Fire
On this date in 1775 Bunker Hill battles saw British attacks repulsed by outnumbered patriots across the Charles River. In 1943 Allied bombers hit Naples and Sicily, in 1967 China announced its first hydrogen bomb, and in 1972 Nixon’s downfall began with Watergate. A West Los Angeles gasoline pipeline rupture sparked a deadly blaze with dozens burned and at least two dead.
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Bunker Hill
Charles River
Boston
Naples
Sicily
China
Washington
Congress
Canada
Connecticut
General Gates
Los Angeles
Today’s chuckle: compliments demand receipts
A brief humor item notes that some people give compliments as if they expect receipts, a wry take on social niceties from a Biddeford Saco Journal column.
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Leslie Bridges
Dayton
John Ewing
Saco Dump
Pass
Ennebunk
Frank Stevens
Allen Heath
L.A
Biddeford
Journal
Maine
New England
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