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| Five-year-old
Benjamin McCoy savors his fish and pie at the fish fry
at the West Millgrove fire department. The annual dinner
is the main social event in this small village, which
has lost most of its gathering places. |
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THE
BLADE/LISA DUTTON
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Slipping
away
An
exodus is under way in most small towns across Ohio and the nation.
It's happening in West Millgrove, and in Beaverdam and Alexandria
and Elgin and Grover Hill, too.
While some small Ohio towns near big cities thrive, those in remote
rural areas - particularly in the northwest corner of the state
- are home to fewer and fewer residents.
It's not that small towns have changed too much. It's that they
really haven't changed at all. When larger cities nearby were
opening superstores and new businesses, these small places were
trying to maintain their quiet ways.
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