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Voters OK hospital by narrow margin

Work on new Rangely hospital should start this summer

RANGELY I The margin of victory in Tuesday’s bond election may not have been what hospital officials had hoped for, but they couldn’t be happier with the final outcome.
Voters, by a margin of 83 votes, 426 to 343, approved a proposal to build a new $38.7 million hospital. Of the 1,383 ballots mailed, 769, or about 57 percent, were returned.
“You’d like to see 100…