RANDOLPH — Coos County Democrats running for elected office on Nov. 8 made pitches supporting their respective candidacies at the annual Harry Truman dinner.
Katie and Mark Kelley hosted the Oct. 5 event — which has been held in New Hampshire since 1988 — in a spacious clean-wood barn outside their Randolph Hill home.
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