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began as a weekly newspaper, publishing its first issue on
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built a new printing plant and offices at 92-24 168th Street, south of
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circulation continued to rise, reaching an all-time high of 445,000 daily and 422,000 Sunday in 1969. But with the economic decline of the 1970s many of the stores and other local businesses that the
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Sleight enlisted in the army and saw action on the
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