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June 13, 2001: Students at SAD 11 in Gardiner quadruple their goal of reading 1 million pages aside from regular studies, Readfield to decide on nature preserve, and La-Z-Boy’s are on sale at a local Augusta business
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June 12, 1985: 35 LaVerdiere’s Winslow distribution center employees balk at signing pamphlet, over 30 firefighters respond to woods fire in Fairfield, and this Rome resident is getting the taste of state police life
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June 11, 2003: Augusta residents overwhelmingly vote to close Buker Middle School, $60 million bond issue pitched by Gov. Baldacci backed by voters, and Maine House upholds governor’s veto of fingerprinting bill
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June 10, 1999: Check out this ‘internet coffee shop’ on College Avenue in Waterville, threat leads to searches of students at Unity Elementary School, and Maine’s mental health commissioner to resign
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June 9, 1988: Obscene newspaper from three Richmond seniors keeps them from graduation, report says most of Maine’s lakes and ponds are within federal clean-water standards, and this Vassalboro man gets his trash back
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June 8, 2006: Ex-funeral home director from Windsor & Camden sentenced to year in prison, councilors approve panel to study combining Waterville & Winslow fire departments, and emotions run high for these Waterville high school graduates
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June 6, 2002: Waterville city council asks members of Colby College to help pitch in for street maintenance, new deal preserves forest land in northern Somerset County, and Norridgewock officials expect road plan to fall
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June 5, 1982: State to auction off 436 pieces of used equipment at State Office parking lot in Augusta, 1 charged in bank robbery in Winthrop, and fire at vacant apartment house on Crosby Street in Augusta deemed suspicious
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June 4, 1991: Biomedical waste found in truck & garage at Waterville condominium complex, 3 members of a military commission tours Loring Air Force Base, and Cornville dogs go to Fairfield
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