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July 29, 1983: High-speed trains not likely to come to Maine says officials at Portland conference, sunbathers in Wells told to put clothes back on, and it’s either jewels or junk at Elmer’s Barn in Coopers Mills
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July 28, 2003: Randolph woman takes breeder tiff to ‘Judge Mathis’ TV show, and top state election officials trying to stimulate younger people to vote
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July 27, 1983: Central Maine Americans team win Babe Ruth championship in Brunswick, Unity College president Louis V. Wilcox resigns, and the Maine School Superintendents Association meets
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July 26, 1999: Augusta Board of Education preparing application for new Cony High School, errant car crashes into full Winslow restaurant, and meet this once-comatose woman from Wells who is reclaiming her life
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July 25, 1989: 50 years ago today, Don Fendler gets lost in the wilds of Kathadin for nine days. We look back at how this boy from New York survived incredible odds.
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July 24, 1982: Meet 78-year-old Grampa Dowe, owner of Grampa Dowe’s store in China. Also, archeologists are digging along the banks of the Kennebec, and kids learn to stay alive in the water in Monmouth
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July 23, 1993: Unsuspecting tourists from New Hampshire get red carpet treatment in Skowhegan from ‘A Current Affair’ program, and off-track betting at John Martin’s Manor in Waterville postponed due to conflict
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July 22, 1977: Opium poppies found sprouting at a gravel parking lot in Augusta, lightning destroys barn on West River Road in Augusta, and wind is not helping matters up in Baxter State Park when it comes to fires
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July 21, 1992: Waterville’s topless bar loses its lease and may be forced to move to Madison, Fairfield may appointment acting fire chief, and the heroics of home healthcare nurses locally
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