By Barbara Tetreault
BERLIN – Greeting a small group of patrons at the Eastern Depot Restaurant Monday morning, Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley recalled campaigning in Berlin in 1983 for Gary Hart. At the time, Hart was a little known U.S. Senator registering about one percent in the polls and O'Malley was a college student.
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