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Aug. 8, 1978: This 9-year-old Pittsifeld girl is packing for Hawaii with her CB-radio group. Also, 37 walk out in strike at Maine-Cascade Iron Works in Clinton
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Aug. 7, 1990: Fisherman illegally hooking Atlantic salmon in Kennebec River being targeted, new park in Augusta envisioned as ‘oasis’, and permit for new church building on China Planning Board agenda tonight
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Aug. 6, 1976: Clinton man wins $10,000 with lottery ticket from Belgrade market, 3-year-old not seriously injured when car strikes girl’s tricycle in Waterville, and new $2 million science center coming to Colby College in fall of 1977
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Aug. 5, 2007: Dentist ‘who treated patients while wearing belly-dancing costume’ wants to resume practice in Waterville, fast-moving storm leaves behind destruction in Somerset County, and Flagstaff Lake’s former residents reunite in Stratton
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Aug. 4, 1987: Inmates at Kennebec County Jail helping fight polio by pledging to bake 19,000 loafs of bread, search continues for cause of gas leak at Augusta market, and construction begins on visitors center at arboretum next month
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Aug. 3, 1993: Oakland’s new fire truck will have new state-of-the-art foam system, China school committee hires a new principal, and the new Walmart is taking shape in Waterville
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Aug. 2, 2001: Somerset County Sheriff, district attorney tangle about music on lines of phone calls waiting to be transferred, wrecking crew dismantles 3 downtown Augusta buildings, and the day in the life of a cemetery mower in Augusta
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Aug. 1, 1989: Meet Lloyd Liberty of Waterville, who traps skunks for a living. Also, the battle for where a new interchange on I-95 will be place continues on
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July 31, 1978: Coopers Mills man and his oxen win ox-pulling contest in Nova Scotia, wooden workshop destroyed by fire in Augusta, and ‘if you ain’t born here, forget it’
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