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Photo courtesy ot Gerald Ochs Fourteen mourners attended a Tuesday morning prayer at the Clopton House in the,center of the Town of Washington to bid adieu to Maude, a 100-year-old box elder that is suffering fatal decay and is scheduled to be removed within days. The Rev. Jennings Hobson III blessed the )
life of the old tree in the company of the tree's owners David^aKcT Maggie Cole, arborist Lyt Wood, town councilwoman Claudia Mitchell, Sunnyside employees and friends. Mr. Cole said that the tree's remains would be moved to his Sunnyside Farm to be seasoned for a year, after which they would be used for fuel in the farm's greenhouse.
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