Babcock, Beetown, Nelsonville, Herbster. They’re among the hundreds of Wisconsin villages and unincorporated towns that share the rural lifestyle. They also are among the 41 Wisconsin post offices on the Postal Service’s potential closure list. And they see that as a threat to small town life. Mike Simonson reports from the Lake Superior community of Herbster.
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