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First Summer Without WI Conservation Corps

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This is the first summer in 20 years that the Wisconsin Conservation Corp hasn’t had teams of young people fixing up parks, trails, and other public gathering places.The W-C-C died quietly a victim of the state budget crisis.Mike Simonson reports from Superior.

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