| | The New Yorker: From the Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | My father is the national sales manager of WGEM, where he has worked for most of his life, and he and my mother still live in a comfortable subdivision on the south edge of town, which looks out over a white farmhouse and a red barn across the street. |
 | | Almost without noticing, WGEM became a part of the story, serving as the central means of communication throughout the area. |
 | | One of the first people interviewed by Michelle McCormack, the WGEM reporter in West Quincy, was a slight young man who claimed to have been near the site of the break and to have warned unnamed “brass” that dangerous boils were present. |
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