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August 1

2021: Beaufort-based weightlifter Mahassen Hala Fattouh competes for Lebanon in the Women’s 76-kilogram weight class at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Fattouh completes five of her six lifts for a personal-record total of 217 kg. Fattouh, the first female weightlifter to represent Lebanon in the Olympic Games, finishes ninth.

August 5

2021: Beaufort’sKazoobie Kazoos, one of just two kazoo factories in the United States, holds a grand opening for its remodeled Kazoo Museum, which highlights the history of the kazoo and features, among other things, a U.S. flag made from 3,000 plastic kazoos.

August 6

2019: The Island Packet and the Beaufort Gazette announce they are discontinuing their Saturday print edition.

— Compiled by Mike McCombs

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