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Short features on things we see and hear in town. From the road and in the distance the sight looked like a big tree getting a group hug. As traffic edged forward on Humphrey Street the sight across from Newman's Bakery heaved into focus. The group appeared to be a family — mom, dad and two kids. The daughter stood on a step ladder and held a wrapped yellow ribbon around the broad maple trunk while her father stood on tippy toes and stapled it. Mom Sharon Morris stood back and eyed it for levelness before she took up a hammer and fastened the bow. Sharon, Ben, and their children, Felicia, 12, and Kegan, 10, have been living in town since …
