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and the on-going two page surveys of county history deserve highest commendation. Wonder if Docs Martin and Krebser will revive the horse and housecall tradition?

The job of a rural paper is to educate as well as entertain, of course, and all the above-mentioned pieces do this effectively; your VictimWitness editorial and Compassionate Friends reportage are examples of the way country-livers can help each other.

But Frank Reynold s, whose explanation of the positive and conserving affects of ag/forest tax reductions on all of us, wins my weekly award for best article. His concluding sentence (in fact the whole article) deserves a thorough mulling:

There is not a single instance of a county which reduced its tax bills by giving

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