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1/21/2002 6:25:17 PM
Posted By: Chris Hopkins

It's a weekly in Grundy, Virginia, 300 miles from anything. The Web site for such publications is mostly a perfunctory thing. The residents in Grundy probably wouldn't expect it to have breaking news. While the Web is an extremely valuable tool, a little newspaper in the middle of nowhere probably has better ways to allocate their resources.

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