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A small, rural town in the Ozarks is grappling with finding a path forward after a Tyson Foods Inc. plant closure left nearly a third of its residents jobless.
“The people around here are resilient,” Noel Mayor Terry Lance told Fox News Digital. “I think a lot of the time you become as resilient as you have to be, and I’m not sure that that’s unique to small town America even.”
“I feel like I see more energy as far as people wanting the town to go in — at least what I believe is — the right direction, than I have seen for some time,” he added.
The Missouri town, with a population of about 2,000, was dealt a devastating blow last year when Tyson announced it was shutting down its …
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