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News & Record, Greensboro, N.C., Jeri Rowe column: July 29: The day they drove old Asheboro down.(Column)
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July 31, 2008
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Byline: Jeri Rowe
Jul. 31--ASHEBORO -- The crane is gone from Dixie Drive. For weeks, you saw it from at least a mile away in either direction along Asheboro's main drag. You'd crest the slight hill beside Asheboro High's Lee J. Stone Stadium, and there it was -- 40 feet in the air, two words as big as any billboard. VOTE AGAINST. That didn't happen this week. And that's a big deal in the Piedmont Triad's version of Mayberry.
It had been a long time in coming -- 58 years, four months and five days to be exact -- when local voters, by a 5-to-1 ...
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