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SALIX, Iowa — A Salix City Council meeting postponed last week due to death and terrorist threats against council members has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Mayor Kevin Nelson said. The threats were made on social media after search engine giant Google expressed interest in building a data center on a 900-acre plot of mostly farmland that was annexed into the small Woodbury County town ...
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