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Frigid weather breaks water mains, threatens emergency operations

  Crews work on a broken water main Saturday, Jan. 6, 
  on Dixie Highway in Homewood.
(Photo by Eric 
  Crump/H-F Chronicle)
 

The next time the temperature dips below zero, say a prayer for, or lift a glass to, your local public works crew, the village staffers who are out working in freezing weather while we’re all tucked up warm at home.

 
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