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Hilary Anne

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Hazardous Device Team Responds to Local Store

Submitted to Contest #317

Hazardous Device Team Responds to Local Store By Charlene Brubaker, North County Register The Marsten-Whitlow department store has long been hailed as the anchor of downtown Greenwood. It survived the collapse of the local coal industry in the 1960s. It was somehow left untouched as three successive hurricane-driven floods left rival stores permanently closed in the 1970s. When shopping malls became the center of retail and social life in the 1980s, Marsten-Whitlow remained unfazed, prompting some locals to joke that time moves differently t...

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