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Today brings word of a new Patch news site in the Belmont Shore-Naples area of Long Beach. This one is edited by former Los Angeles Timers reporter and editor Nancy Wride, and includes as contributors former Times photographer Lori Shepler and outdoors columnist Pete Thomas.
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Another day, another Patch site
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