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April 9, 1997: Around 500 turned out at Augusta Civic Center for ‘an emotionally-charged hearing’ on latest gay rights bill, schools in central Maine have problems with internet, and future of old Augusta City Hall produces a puzzling situation for councilors
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April 8, 1977: President of Colby College says students there should not have final say in determining educational policy, ex-Madison mill workers pursue plans for co-op, and President Carter names George Mitchell as U.S. Attorney for Maine
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April 7, 1993: Maine House of Representatives emphatically allows right to abortion, Winslow & Waterville apparently raiding China for students, tuition, and its mud season in central Maine
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April 6, 1985: Diamond Match Company permanently closing its manufacturing facility in Oakland, and Waterville bars, restaurants, and bands are all feeling effects of state’s ‘tough’ liquor laws
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April 5, 2000: You can no longer feed the ducks on Maranacook Lake in Winthrop says town council, groundbreaking for new veterans cemetery held in Augusta, and 2 Cony students win essay contest on Washington D.C.
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April 4, 1988: First Maine caribou of 1988 to be named after town of Canaan, committee in Fairfield to study use of $1.9 million ‘nest egg’, and 250 ‘youthful minds’ in China explained their inventions to audiences at a convention recently
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April 3, 1991: Is a cruise line coming to the Kennebec River as early as next month? Also, we meet a couple of students holding down jobs while still in high school
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April 2, 2004: No decision yet on merger of MaineGeneral Health’s Waterville and Augusta hospitals into one facility, possibly in Sidney, and 2 former executives at Maine Biological Laboratories plead guilty to trying to smuggle chicken virus into country from Saudi Arabia
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April 1, 1975: Waterville man fired from Augusta Mental Health Institute following his conviction of rape & sodomy, Maine Supreme Court allows forest excise tax, and Gov. James Longley appears to be winning the battle of the budget
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