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“Child care has always come up. This is the closest we’ve ever gotten to addressing the issue of child care, and I'm not going to let it fall for $400,000. We’re so close you can almost smell it."

“We’re dumbfounded,” said Mark Loosbrock, secretary/treasurer of Lismore Cooperative Telephone Company, which spearheaded the project. “They had maps that our engineers, that nobody had. That’s why that money got denied.”