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We are also pleased that the building behind the tattoo shop is down. Now, can the city please repair all the lights that are out on the Stewart Parkway street and the walkway? Some of the lights have been out and broken since Hurricane Irene.

 

I choked up when I read the column by Cokie and Steve Roberts on the editorial page. It was about the U.S. Olympic team having more than 40 foreign-born members. What a great tribute to our country. Where many other countries persecute those who do not conform to their ideology, we can be thankful for our country. God bless America.

 

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