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Barbara Blaine retirement leaves a big void

Barbara Blaine grins about the School Board's retirement gift. The board "retired" her electric typewriter, superintendent David Jones said, like law enforcement agencies retire an officer's sidearm.

They come and they go — superintendents, school board members, elections, bond issues, county commission fights, angry parents, scholarship winners, state champions. Barbara Blaine has been there for all of it, and will be there on Monday night, steady as ever.

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