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Colorado Prison Closing Troubling
By denverpost.com
Published: 03/23/2010

WALSENBURG β€” Workers at Duckwall's Hometown Variety Store here dismantled cabinets Thursday that days earlier were packed with everything from yarn to plumbing supplies to fishing gear.

Profits from the store, owned by a national chain, had evaporated in the past year. Now the town's second-biggest employer, the Huerfano County Correctional Center, was set to lay off 188 employees and close its doors April 2, making the store's prospects for a financial rebound unlikely.

After a 16-year run, Duckwall's did not renew its lease for the building on the corner of Sixth and Main streets, and so six more part-time employees in this southern Colorado town of about 4,000 β€” already hard hit by the recession β€”

"The economy of this town is zilch. The prison closing down is going to hurt," said Joe Kancilia, who owns a gun and furniture shop a few blocks west of Duckwall's.

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