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Dixboro Pure

Blue bottles hold blue-ribbon sap.

by Sandor Slomovits

posted 3/16/2010

What's in those big blue bottles sprouting at the base of the trees surrounding the Dixboro village green and the old Dixboro School on Plymouth Road? Gallons and gallons of sap that will be reduced to maple syrup by five friends--Steve Day, Mark Korzon, Rob Martens, Andy McLaughlin, and Derrick Oxender. The quintet--who met playing hockey in an over-forty

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