Hurt keeps part-time chief<\/a><\/p>\nYou’re a very small town when your police chief is part-time and you pay him $10 each time he drives down to his job.<\/p>\n
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We all know that Hurt, VA is a small town. We didn’t know it was this small.<\/p>\n
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