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							<title>Small, illegal signage now in the crosshairs of volunteers</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
							<description>Depending on where you stand, roadside signs can be either the lifeline of grassroots commerce or a blight on right-of-way beauty.</description>
							
						
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							<title>Orphaned but popular road excites range of reactions</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
							<description>Call it the strange case of the orphan road where good turns do not go unpunished.</description>
							
						
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							<title>Postal authorities get earfuls from Balm residents</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
							<description>By MELODY JAMESON
BALM &amp;ndash; Last week, a crowd of concerned post office patrons here personally delivered a strong message of resistance to postal managers.
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							<title>Area residents not yet sold on proposed ethanol plant</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
							<description>Citizens here and in surrounding communities are weighing merits of a large proposed ethanol plant in their backyard</description>
							
						
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							<title>Unabashed library lover gets first time award</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
							<description>Jim Duffy attributes his success to a library.</description>
							
						
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							<title>Correctional facility is on elected officials’ radar</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
							<description>A campaign to keep open the prison for women here has captured the attention of elected officials.</description>
							
						
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							<title>Small, cherished, long lived post office up for closing</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
							<description>Historic Balm post office is targeted for closure.</description>
							
						
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							<title>Efforts renewed to relieve channel, canal silting</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
							<description>...Things may be looking up for waterfront homeowners with boats</description>
							
						
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