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On This Date
Sept. 10, 1994: UMA instructor goes from student to faculty member, 10,000 bikers to zoom through Augusta for Toy Run, and O.J. Simpson escapes death penalty
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Sept. 9, 1976: Meet Gertrude, a young Amazon parrot who spends her time at a Waterville pet shop, talk slated on organizing a Jaycee unit in Newport, and Waterville police many items stolen from a parked vehicle yesterday
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Sept. 8, 1998: East side-west side commuter rail shuttle proposed for Augusta, St. Augustine catholic school’s science lab modernized, and police in Maine are returning to schools as a deterrent
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Sept. 7, 1984: Eight indicted in undercover drug operation in Franklin County, ‘sacred cows’ defended in school debate, and a judge bars Maine State Police from soliciting advertisements in magazine ‘The Maine Trooper’
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Sept. 6, 1995: Gardiner Area High School addition gets OK from state, Winthrop woman takes her harassment case to rights panel, and high school friends save kid from drowning at Acadia National Park
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Sept. 5, 1973: Maine Criminal Justice Academy campus goes coed for the first time, power supply issues in New England fixed, and young Keith Norris was off to a rough start during his first day of school in Newport
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Sept. 4, 1986: Samantha Smith’s mother sues airline that crashed and killed her daughter 13 months ago, man arrested and another sought in Augusta shooting, and it’s time to reserve your lobster…plates, that is
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Sept. 3, 1992: No one injured when gunman enters Skowhegan bar and fired two guns, crews moving houses in anticipation of new Waterville-Winslow bridge, and a Farmington drug store is meeting Walmart’s challenge
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Sept. 2, 2006: Maine Turnpike officials send apology letter to Gov. Baldacci for ‘expensive dinner’, Maine’s political campaign shifting into more ‘intense phase’, and students say the ‘bathrooms actually work’ at the new Cony High School
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