Article: OUTCRY HALTS TREE CUTTING

PHOTO - 2 Stumps mark an area that has been cleared of trees along U.S. 20 near Furnessville. (Photo by John Mitchell) Residents have rallied to save this elm tree along a stretch of U.S. 20 being cleared by the Indiana Department of Highways. (Photo by John Mitchell)

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A public uproar has brought a temporary halt to tree cutting by the Indiana Department of Highways on U.S. 20, giving a lease on life to a magnificent old elm tree that has become a tourist attraction. The elm, whose limbs extend over the eastbound lanes of U.S. 20, was slated to be cut down this week. But Lee Wright, the highway department's Valparaiso ...

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