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Article Spotlight: Ecusta
Stories
Mountain
Xpress
writers take a close
look at a plant closing that
raises vital questions for Western North Carolina.
Martin Johnson tells how Local families struggle to adapt to shifting job picture; Cecil Bothwell asks, High
stakes
game ends, but who took the kitty?
; Brian Sarzynski
notes that the Auction
provides as
many questions as answers
;
Steve
Rasmussen
says that the Toxic threat to WNC rivers
still looms at Ecusta
.

 

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