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MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times
Caleb Willett, center, a 7th grader at O'Maley Middle School, competes in the Northeast Conference Middle School Cross Country race Thursday at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester. Over 1,000 middle schoolers from around the state competed, either in the Northeast Conference event or the statewide Jim Munn Invitational which immediately preceded it.

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