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Hector’s legacy: Farm land saved

Written March 25th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

A one-paragraph death notice in today’s Albany Democrat-Herald announced the passing at age 96 of Hector Macpherson, the one man who more than anyone else deserves the credit for saving much of the farm land and open space we still have in the more heavily populated parts of this state.


 
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