The Berlin Daily Sun’s story last Friday on the marriage of two men - one a current inmate at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility and the other a former inmate - generated a fire storm of controversy.
Berlin Daily Sun Office Manager Rita Dube said the newspaper office was swamped with phone calls that morning - the vast majority objecting to the decision to run the story. The Sun has also received a large number of letters about the story.
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