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City Council, Die Cast factory site, gas tax, street-improvement program

Streets program, gas tax OK’d; city would buy Die Cast site

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Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.

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