Town of Chatham to tackle eyesores<\/a><\/p>\nWhile we applaud the Chatham town council’s decision to try and clean up some of the blighted areas around town, we do chuckle when Ben Davenport gets the spotlight with his own ideas which have the slightest appearance of self-serving. Not surprisingly, some of the rational regular R&B commenters have already called Davenport out on this. <\/p>\n
Ain’t small town life fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Doesn’t that make you feel safe & secure? Nah… didn’t think so.<\/p>\n
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