Gate splits border community, unites it in disdain

For decades, the towns of Derby Line, Vt., and Stanstead, Quebec, have functioned as one community.

they share a sewer system, emergency services, snowplowing duties and the border-straddling Haskel

Work began Thursday, though, to erect of a pair of 5-foot-tall steel gates across two previously unguarded residential streets -- a project that is dividing the towns physically but uniting them in displeasure.

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