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Alpine County struggles to cope in hard times
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January 21st, 2010 |
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By Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle
MARKLEEVILLE — There’s always been a lot of nothing up here in Alpine County, where the twisting roads soar to 9,800 feet and the snow-coated Sierra slopes stretch for miles without a single building. The few mountain folk who call this place home like that placidity just fine.
These days, though, there’s a little more of that nothing. And that’s not just fine with the locals.
Alpine County lost more population last year by percentage than any other county in California. The loss speaks of more than just people moving out – it illustrates the difficulty facing small, rural counties all over the state.
