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Declarations, Larry Lough, newspapers, old courthouse, The Inter Ocean

When you rip up floors and tear out walls of an old building, you find surprises. They usually come in two forms: trouble or treasure. During recent interior demolition of […]

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Declarations, Larry Lough, newspapers, old courthouse, The Inter Ocean

Larry Lough

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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