Vacant bocce courts give way to eerie, empty parking lots

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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Joe Cassese has lived and worked and prayed in this old town all of his life. It’s died before; and he is doing whatever he can to not let it, or his business or resolve die again.

But, he admits bluntly, it isn’t easy.

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