Video Local town celebrates post office’s centennial Body The town of Chadbourn has reason to celebrate. The town’s post office just had it’s 100th birthday. The Chadbourn post office opened long before 1909, but it didn’t officially become part of the United States Postal Service until President William Howard Taft …
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MOSINEE — FedEx Ground plans to open a new 45,000-square-foot distribution facility in Mosinee today. More: continued here
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Read More »US Postal Service weighs service cuts – CNN
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