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Aug. 25, 1990: Automation of postal system eliminates 14 employees at Augusta Post Office, 13 members of National Guard placed on alert for active duty, and two friends from Pittston who’ve talked about doing mission work together fulfill their dreams
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Aug. 24, 2002: Winslow woman creates part of 5,000 square-foot 9/11 quilt, region gears up for influx of Somali families possibly moving here, and governor’s staff seeks change to Maine quarter design
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Aug. 23, 1986: 5×7 foot piece of Winthrop St. pavement suddenly disappears in Augusta, social security payroll tax continues to climb, and a 33-year-old Augusta woman lives the life of an 80-year-old
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Aug. 22, 1990: Oakland restroom facilities at Belgrade Ave. park ‘may never be built’, Unity College accreditation ruling still months away, and builder plans apartments for eastern side of Messalonskee Lake
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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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