“What we’re going through should be a case study in regional cooperation. We watched the Ford plant close, but that was way ‘over there’ [in Norfolk]. We didn’t appreciate the [regionalism] efforts until it landed on our doorstep.â€
-Franklin Mayor James Councill, addressing the closing of International Paper and the
impending loss of 1,100 jobs and the related ripple effect throughout Hampton Roads
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