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Tiny town chips in to save its historic newspaper
When people in Silverton, Colo., a town of 638, saw their historic newspaper about to close, they decided to make some history of their own, contributing both money and labor to keep the Silverton Standard & the Miner running. Bob Dotson reports. More
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