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    Pine Belt shoppers will soon have a wider selection of retailers from which to shop. This summer, four new retail businesses have relocated to Turtle Creek Mall and are scheduled to be open by August.
    Pine Belt shoppers will soon have a wider selection of retailers from which to shop.
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    HATTIESBURG (WDAM) - Police say a tractor trailer accident is blocking 38th Avenue and Hardy Street. Police are diverting traffic. Copyright 2013 WDAM. All rights reserved.
    Police say a tractor trailer accident is blocking 38th Avenue and Hardy Street.  Police are diverting traffic.
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    The city of Columbia is receiving complaints over the odor of its sewage lagoon Columbia has narrowed the odor problem down to algae growth along the city's sewage lagoon. The board of alderman voted
    The city of Columbia is receiving complaints over the odor of its sewage lagoon Columbia has narrowed the odor problem down to algae growth along the city's sewage lagoon. The board of alderman voted

I'm sure you are as ready as I am for this election season to be over…and it is about to be.   Today it comes to a close.  It seems like it has been going on since the last presidential race…and, in some ways, it has.  The two candidates for president are each spending roughly one-billion dollars each on their campaigns.  Mississippi doesn't see a lot of it because we only have six electoral votes.  But we do hear a lot of screams, hollering and arguing on all the radio and television talk shows.  But that's OK.  After all this is a Democratic Republic and robust debate and discussion of the issues is essential.  It is all the half truths, slander and negativity that people grow so weary of.  Nevertheless, this is our American system for choosing our leaders and we will soon be celebrating Veteran's Day in honor of those who have served in our armed forces to preserve our freedom to choose a government as Abraham Lincoln put it, "of the people, by the people and for the people".  We have a sacred duty to get out and vote.  Shame on those who can and don't. 

I'm Jim Cameron…let us know what you think.