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Town turns out for store owner

Nearly 100 people appeared Tuesday at a public hearing in Wrenshall related to proposed RV park regulations. About 15 percent of attendees spoke at the hearing, doing so resoundingly and to repeated applause. Their message to the city's planning commission, which is also its town council: leave business owner Jeff Bloom alone.

"For you to pick this man out and single him out and try to create ordinances to cause him to spend more money that could possibly cause him to go out of business is completely uncalled for," said Jim Biaglow, of Clarksville, Tennessee, a refinery worker who is staying a...