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Between A Town And Its Bears, A Star-Crossed Relationship

NPR | By Natasha Haverty
Published August 25, 2014 at 4:45 PM EDT

Most people in the town of Old Forge, N.Y., want to refrain from feeding black bears. The trouble is, without the bears coming around as often as they do, North Country Public Radio's Natasha Haverty reports that the town could stand to lose a lot of its tourism.

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