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I had no idea my suburb was so incredible, until the New York Times told me

WAtoday · 17 August 2026 at 4:30 pm

I had no idea my suburb was so incredible, until the New York Times told me

In 2007, the paper published an article about our beautiful village.

Then the whole world knew.

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