NEW: Post offices ready for annual food driveThe Morning SunIn Alma, the Post Office will deliver the boxed and canned goods – no ice cream please – to the First Presbyterian Church in Alma. As it is for most post offices, the carriers will collect the items on Saturday or …
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The 65 workers at the downtown site will have to move if lease talks aren’t successful. The move would follow closings at Pioneer Courthouse Square in 2005 and the Gus Solomon courthouse in January. More: continued here
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