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Homewood leaders at the Aug. 22 board meeting, from left, trustees Vivian Harris-Jones and Jay Heiferman, Village Attorney Chris Cummings, Mayor Rich Hofeld, Village Manager Napoleon Haney, and trustees Anne Colton, Julie Willis and Lisa Purcell. (Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle)

Sept. 15 is Democracy Day, and I thought it would be appropriate to celebrate it by highlighting several recent moments when local democracy worked rather well.

By democracy, I don’t mean governance solely by elected leaders.…

Eric Crump started his first newspaper with his best friend when he was 9. It was four pages and folded after one issue. Possibly as many as two or three people read it. In 2014, about 46 years later, he started another paper, the H-F Chronicle, which is still going and has a few more readers.

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