09.15.2009 4:07 pm

JJS Wash: The last laundromat in town

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

81-year-old Jean Salrin of JJS Wash owns the last laundromat in Mt. Sterling, Illinois. Five days a week she works from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Unless she doesn’t feel like it, she says. When she answers the phone and…

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09.07.2009 8:01 pm

Documenting small town America - Mt. Sterling

By Elie Gardner

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I had the opportunity to disappear to small town America last week. Brown County has the lowest unemployment rate of all the Missouri and Illinois counties. The reporter, Terry Hillig, and I went there knowing that Dot Foods, the prison…

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