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Dec. 29, 1987: New $2.6 million Oakland business park set, police hunt for missing Winslow woman, and the spring floods in central Maine voted Maine’s top story of ’87
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Dec. 28, 1948: New Farmingdale grammar school to be dedicated, President Truman says some Russian leaders anxious to end Cold War, and bill to ban fireworks in Maine headed to legislature next month
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Dec. 27, 1957: No more strip tease acts in Maine night clubs? Also, farmstead burns in Belgrade, and Gov. Muskie’s daughter celebrates first birthday
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Dec. 26, 1985: Church brightens Christmas for 250 with hot meal in Waterville, settlement reached in 6-year dispute at Oak Grove-Coburn School in Vassalboro, and we go behind-the-scenes at how the pizza is made at Domino’s
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Dec. 24, 1964: Two burned in explosion-fed fire in Augusta, two makers counting on a ‘hep’ Santa, and Pope Paul VI gives a Christmas wish
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Dec. 23, 1946: Three men die in Anson & Waterville fires, Maine college population is two-thirds vets, and Maine’s own flying Santa is ready to go
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Dec. 22, 1992: Somerset County honors fallen deputy sheriff, an Oakland mobile home park will be auctioned, and students from Fairfield Primary School organize a human chair for a good cause
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Dec. 21, 1971: Townsend Road home damaged by fire in Augusta, glee club to perform Christmas carols at Williams Junior High School in Oakland, and this bread pudding is elegant
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Dec. 20, 1966: About $50 worth of clothes stolen from laundromat in Waterville, 40-ton ‘package boiler’ arrives at Keyes Fibre Co., and 2-year-old miniature poodle was rescued from heavy traffic in Waterville
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