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Hardware Store Serves ‘Working Town’

Rafael Aguilera is now owning and running a hardware store in his ‘retirement’ from a state agency job.

The motto of a local hardware store speaks to its place in its community and the area around it. “Heart of a Working Town,” it says on a store window by an entrance of Express Hardware in Elsa. The store is located about a block away from the intersection on FM 88 and state Highway 107. It has become a crossroads corner for the communities that make up what’s known…

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