The Daily Circuit's Tom Weber joined MPR News' Ground Level team in International Falls earlier this week, talking to residents and visiting everything from a high school class to deer-hunting shacks.
The town of 6,400 people felt the blow this fall of several hundred job cuts at the mainstay paper mill. Residents are examining how they might forge a future different from the past.
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