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This week on Yonder Radio we’re talking about the results of a new poll of rural voters, conducted by us here at the Center for Rural Strategies and expert pollsters Lake Research. Then, we’ll hear a conversation among community members in the Florida Panhandle about their efforts to save a pristine local watershed from a proposed sewer plant.

And, we’ll head to Quilcene, Washington to talk to a forest farmer about producing syrup from big leaf maple trees. Then we’ll hear about the Rural Health Transformation Fund from Sarah Jane Tribble of KFF Health News, and an interview with the deputy editor of the Midcoast Villager, a hard-hitting rura ...