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Tom HargroveCity Hall reporterTom Hargrove has covered Millbrook city government for the Ledger since 2015, sitting through enough budget hearings to recognize department heads by the cadence of their presentations alone. He keeps a running file of every capital project the council has delayed, which is how he knew the Elm Street parking garage had been on eleven separate meeting agendas before it finally passed. He reads the consultant study before he reads the press release.Darlene ShueLife & Opinion editorDarlene Shue spent eighteen years running the front office at Millbrook Elementary before she started writing for the Ledger's Life section in 2019, which is why she can get a retiring librarian or a county fair judge talking inside of five minutes. She also edits the paper's opinion submissions, trimming guest columns down to the argument that's actually in them. She still keeps a shoebox of thank-you notes from sources who told her nobody had asked them that before.Benji TrammellSports & business reporterBenji Trammell played linebacker for a small college program in Ohio until a knee injury ended that, and he's covered Castellan County prep sports for the Ledger since 2021 instead. He also tracks the county's small businesses, the diners and hardware stores that never send out a press release, because he thinks a town's economy shows up on a scoreboard before it shows up in a quarterly report. He still keeps his old defensive playbook in his desk drawer, mostly for the formations.