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Governor John Lynch joined Vermont Governor Jim Douglas today to announce the opening of a temporary unemployment office in the town of Canaan, Vermont. It aims to help workers laid off at the Ethan Allen plant across the Connecticut River in Beecher Falls, Vermont.

About 130 of those who’ve lost their jobs are from New Hampshire. As NHPR’s Kathryn Wells reports, small towns in the North Country fear they’re at the end of their ropes.