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Nov. 2, 1982: It’s Election Day and voter turnout expected to be low statewide but heavy locally, an innocent verdict upheld in Augusta Mental Health Institute case, and nuclear questions face voters nationwide
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Nov. 1, 1990: Four-year effort to reintroduce woodland caribou to Maine’s wildlife falls victim to black bears and lack of funds, Moscow carpenter faces sex charges, and independent candidate Andrew Adam may spoil McKernan-Brennan rivalry
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Oct. 31, 2002: Parents, officials talk about a need for a cop at Cony High School in Augusta, Collins & Baldacci win mock election in Maine, and is the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Augusta haunted?
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Oct. 30, 2007: Waterville Planning Board OKs plan for 66 residential units to built inside former Hathaway shirt building, Bob Marley recalls his years in Waterville as a kid, and the Red Sox are in celebration mode in Boston
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Oct. 29, 1981: Voters in Jefferson to decide fate of construction at Village School, ‘Healthy Halloween Party’ wraps up in Richmond, and Arby’s makes a vegetable soup that’s ‘uncannily’ good
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Oct. 28, 1994: Oakland, Belgrade students meet each other for first time thanks to pen pal program, two more arrested in Skowhegan theft sweep, and the Morning Sentinel endorses Angus King to be the next governor of Maine
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Oct. 27, 1982: Augusta City Council believes Capitol Theater is threat to public safety and wants it demolished, 12 imprisoned criminals will petition for pardons, commutations in court today, and two men were arrested for trapping illegal pelts out of season
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Oct. 26, 1974: Traffic pattern around Castonguay Square in Waterville to be reversed says police chief & mayor, rescue crews from two communities search Sebasticook River in Pittsfield looking for victims of car plunge, and pulp truck drivers threatening to boycott mills with weight lists
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Oct. 25, 2000: Augusta native wants french text corrected on a plaque at a monument to workers who trekked up and down Sand Hill, and patients at Togus VA hospital will see a physical more quickly now after complaints of long wait times.
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