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Editor’s note: This story is part one of a series spotlighting why shopping local matters.
Local sales taxes generate revenue for a host of vital services for the communities in which they are dedicated.
Sales taxes are used to repair roads,

City of Minden crews work to replace a culvert at a drainage ditch on Sheppard Street. A portion of the road was closed as a precaution, because a 16-inch water line runs underneath the street and close to the culvert. Michelle Bates/Press-Herald