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Toyota talk

Thanks to Roby Brock for a link to a newspaper article quoting a North Carolina man working on landing a Toyota assembly plant there that Marion, Ark., has already been tabbed as the site of the next Toyota facility.

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Great news...

I just read that Marion County just voted to go wet too. Doubt that's connected, though.

I'm sure those folks will be pleased if the plant settles there.

It doesn't Marion is in Crittenden. Marion county consists of the sprawling metropolis of Yellville and others.

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