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Aug. 24, 2002: Winslow woman creates part of 5,000 square-foot 9/11 quilt, region gears up for influx of Somali families possibly moving here, and governor’s staff seeks change to Maine quarter design
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Aug. 23, 1986: 5×7 foot piece of Winthrop St. pavement suddenly disappears in Augusta, social security payroll tax continues to climb, and a 33-year-old Augusta woman lives the life of an 80-year-old
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Aug. 22, 1990: Oakland restroom facilities at Belgrade Ave. park ‘may never be built’, Unity College accreditation ruling still months away, and builder plans apartments for eastern side of Messalonskee Lake
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Aug. 21, 1973: Associated Press reporting an apparent shortage of toilet seats, telephone poles, meat and gas nationwide, and the ‘local’ definition of obscenity on minds of many
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Aug. 20, 1983: Author of M*A*S*H novel who is former surgeon at Waterville hospital finds TV show ‘not particularly funny’, funding for Rangeley-based missing child center stalls, and archaeological dig at Solon campground finds people used site over 3,000 years ago
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Aug. 19, 1981: Shaw’s 10,000 sq. foot store expansion in Augusta worries local retail competition, Maine Human Rights Commission rules in favor of new father, and this hardworking vegetable dealer in Dover-Foxcroft returned sum of money to elderly woman
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Aug. 18, 1993: Police increase pot charges against Brighton’s first selectman and her husband, registered Maine Guide from Oakland gets 3 days in jail, and selling sausages for the last 27 years at the Skowhegan fair is ‘a lot of hard work’
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Aug. 17, 1990: ‘America’s Most Wanted’ TV show may help find missing suspects in Augusta man’s death, area oil and gas prices are holding steady, and free lobster, anyone?
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