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Gary Peters: “Yet residents of Oscoda are frustrated, to say the least, and I believe justifiably so, with the slow pace of both the…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2018
Yet residents of Oscoda are frustrated, to say the least, and I believe justifiably so, with the slow pace of both the State and Federal action in that area.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters addresses residents' frustration over slow environmental cleanup efforts.

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