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1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Metro Creative Connection

   New roles: When a friend becomes a caregiver (opens the original)

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   For several years, Nicole Straight and Patricia Wood, who lived across the street from each other in Sausalito, California, were more neighbors than friends, exchanging sociable greetings and occasionally having coffee. Then, last October, Wood took a fall, broke her neck, and spent three months in rehabilitation. When she returned to the house she shares with her niece, she couldn’t walk without assistance. “I still don’t dare go up and down stairs unless someone is with me,” said Wood,

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2. Article · Jul 18, 2026 · Metro Creative Connection

   How to support the heartbeat of your neighborhood (opens the original)

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   Small businesses drive the economic engine and often reflect the character of a local community. When people choose to shop at a local business over a big box retailer, they aren’t just making purchases, they’re making an investment in their communities. The United States Chamber of Commerce says small businesses employ nearly half of the American workforce and represent 43.5 percent of America’s gross domestic product (GDP). Small businesses are a critical component of the national econom

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