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Oct. 12, 1981: Wyandotte Industries, one of Waterville’s largest employers, ceases operations. Also, women band together to fight alcohol in Waterville, and will a B-1 long range bomber Reagan wants to benefit Loring Air Force Base in Aroostook County?
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Oct. 11, 2003: Want tickets to the Red Sox vs. Yankees game? You better pony up $1,600. Also, heating oil prices up several cents a gallon over last year in Maine
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Oct. 10, 1988: 43 Waterville High School students get two-day suspensions for walkout, 1987 crime rise ends 5-year decline, and a snowman (yes, a snowman) melts away in Unity
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The Way It Was in Skowhegan: Week of Oct. 14-21
Showcasing what happened in the Skowhegan-area on this date for the week of Oct. 14-21
Oct. 9, 2007: Augusta airline looks to reduce number of daily flights during fall and winter months, Maine business leaders to visit South Korea and Japan later this month, and Annie get your gun out to the ‘largest firearms auction’ in Fairfield
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Oct. 8, 1976: Winslow gets new $41,000 trash compactor truck and will start its own town-wide refuse collection next week, Sen. Edmund Muskie was in Waterville yesterday, and meet this year’s Colby College Man-of-The-Year award
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Nov. 8, 1993: Calumet Club bestows highest honor to an Augusta community activist, local schools not taking position on Lewiston school’s controversial order, and Cony field hockey teams are state champs
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