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Report: Troubled town turning 100 in July must go

For nearly a century the fortunes of this tiny town were tied to the oil fields that surrounded it and the people who worked them. They came by the thousands but have dwindled to 1,154 - a combination of oilers, farm workers and retirees drawn to a place of unrelenting sun and tumbleweeds 50 miles southwest of Bakersfield. Now on the eve of Maricopa's 100th anniversary the county grand jury is calling for its dismantling, describing a place in political chaos...

 

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