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Picher packing it in The ever-defiant Ray said: “It’s not going anywhere if I can help it. There’s too much history there.”
Picher is continuing to shut down as the state, with federal money, buys out the last remaining residents. The population may be under 50. A couple of years ago, the town had a population of more than 700 people. A spokeswoman for the Picher post office said the office will close Monday. Plans call for the closing of city offices in September. And on Tuesday night, graduates of the Picher-Cardin School District marked both the end of the school system, which closed Tuesday, and the return of Bobo, a concrete statue of the school district’s gorilla mascot. The statue was sold to a Conway, Mo., resident last month when the school district put much of the remaining property up for auction. Local residents rallied to buy the gorilla back, and it was returned Tuesday. It ultimately is to be donated to a museum. Treece proposal U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., has introduced federal legislation that would authorize a buyout of Treece, Kan., because of dangers posed to residents from past mining operations. “One hundred years of mining near Treece has left the approximately 100 residents with toxic soil, dangerous conditions and no hope of rebuilding,” Jenkins said in a news release. “While I appreciate the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to clean up Treece, I am convinced cleanup is not sufficient.” Treece is just north of Picher, Okla. Jenkins said in the release that residents of Treece and Picher were victims of virtually the same circumstances. 
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