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Town Moves on After Hershey's Plant Departure, Bittersweetness Lingers

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Imagine living in a place that smells like chocolate. For decades that described the town of Oakdale, about an hour and a half east of San Francisco, once home to a Hershey's chocolate plant. KQED's Scott Shafer visited the city nine years ago, when Hershey announced it was closing the plant. As part of our week-long collaboration with NPR called "A Nation Engaged," Shafer returned to Oakdale to hear how folks who live there are doing now.

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