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SCOTIA, Calif. (AP) - Along with the scent of freshly cut redwood, an air of uncertainty hangs over this idyllic Northern California logging town.
Mel Berti feels it from behind the butcher counter at Hoby's Market, where he has greeted lumber mill workers and their families by name for three decades.
Nodding toward the tidy streets and rows of whitewashed bungalows outside, he wonders what the Scotia he knows will look like in another 10 years — now that its days as a company town, one of the last in America, are numbered.
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