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More than a year ago, The Times reported that post office box rates had doubled to $166.

More than a year ago, The Times reported that post office box rates had doubled to $166.

The Buena Vista Post Office failed to deliver more than 1,200 sanitation bills for the month of July.

The Buena Vista Post Office failed to deliver over 1,200 sanitation bills for the month of July.

In its early years, Presque Isle suffered numerous fires.  As a result, there are few original buildings left along Main Street.  One of the oldest buildings still in existence is the Allen Building, located immediately to the south of the Northeastland Hotel at 428 Main Street.  

When the old Mesa post office opened more than 83 years ago downtown amid the depths of the Depression, it was a sign that a remote desert outpost had arrived as a growing city. Because the city had 6,000 residents, the federal government deemed Mesa worthy of its first post office – and first federal building – rather than a contract station inside a general store or a drug store, explained longtime Mesa historic preservationist Vic Linoff. Now the mothballed building is getting a ne...