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By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com ELIZABETHTOWN — Elizabethtown officials and administration for the Elizabethtown Community Hospital will attempt to solve a parking issue at the Sept. 20 meeting of the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals. The hospital recently purchased a parcel located across the street from the facility and Horace Nye Nursing Home, which was previously had several uses, including as a car wash. According to Jane Hooper, the hospital cleaned up, graded and used crushed stone to create a level parking area for its staff on this piece of property.
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Members of the Westport Volunteer Fire Department work to overturn an airplane that had been flipped during a severe storm that made its way through Westport Sept. 6. Photo by Karlee McGee
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WESTPORT — A quick moving storm made its way through Westport Sept. 6, up-rooting trees, damaging soccer equipment and cabins at Camp Dudley, even overturning an airplane at the Westport Airport. The storm hit around 4 p.m., as Camp Dudley Business Manager Fred Guffey was returning to town when he saw the system. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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Steve Denton looks at the damage to one of the cabins at Camp Dudley.
ELIZABETHTOWN — Four years ago, Washington County enacted a local law that restricted where registered sex offenders could live in their county. At that time, Essex County looked into doing something similar, but then backed off. Now, the chairman of the Board of Supervisors wants
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