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  "textContent": "If South Hadley, Massachusetts, is a bellwether, it doesn't look promising for other cash-strapped US towns. The Wall Street Journal and WWLP report that voters in the town of 18,000 rejected two ballot measures on Tuesday that would have raised an additional $9 million over four years or $11...",
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