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  • The Good Folks of Lennox Valley: Cooper and Long wage a war of words

    Kevin Slimp|Jan 1, 2018

    A week had passed since Bascomb Finch made his ill-fated appearance on Raymond Cooper's radio show, but the story of his "drunken display" was still the talk of the town, thanks to Raymond Cooper and Iris Long.  The "Special Edition" of Raymond's Valley Patriot had filled racks around the downtown area at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning. Iris thought it was interesting to call the issue "special" since the Patriot advertised itself as a weekly newspaper. Just like a lot of Cooper's shenanigans, it was u...