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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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Aug. 16, 1970: Fairfield girl narrowly escapes being bitten in face by rat, UMaine system brought under attack in Augusta, and construction of new Wayndotte Industries plan on Sidney Road in Waterville progressing well
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Aug. 15, 1995: Sen. Olympia Snowe enjoying new power, effectiveness in Senate, ‘doomed’ Hallowell row house gets replacement, and Fayette resident enjoying new role as Monmouth Postmaster
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Aug. 14, 1975: Nearly every game booth at this year’s Skowhegan Fair is being run by a woman, wreckers demolish old credit union for new one on Elm St. in Waterville, and there’s still some honest left in the world
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Aug. 13, 1995: Hempstock and racism bring attention to town of Starks, state police are looking for ‘the perfect cop’ to join their ranks, and the story of a mother and daughter in South Gardiner living with diabetes
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