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Restaurants Searching For Workers, Cicada Emergence | Indiana Newsdesk

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Right now on  Indiana Newsdesk:

Many restaurants haven’t survived the last 14 months, and those that did are now struggling to reopen. Ahead more on the economics that are leaving many restaurants searching for workers.

Get ready, you soon won’t be able to escape the sounds of cicadas. Coming up, answers to your questions – how to prepare your trees for cicadas, how long the singing bugs will stick around, and how you can help scientists track them.

Plus, nearly two years of work pays off in Owen County. How a new public restroom means festivals are back in downtown Spencer.

Those stories and the latest news headlines from across the state, right now on  Indiana Newsdesk.

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