Jim Boyle, editor of the Star News in Elk River, told his readers last week that he won't criticize the city's Chamber of Commerce for cutting a celebration whose "return on investment of time and money had been diminishing for some time," but he is also convening a citywide group of civic leaders in hopes of bringing it back.
"This great anniversary celebration that brings this community together is our nation's anniversary of independence," he wrote. "I sometimes wonder if that has been lost in the shuffle of traditions and commercialism."
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