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Frank Kilgore, Southwest Virginia’s ‘unofficial chamber of commerce,’ dies
When St. Paul lawyer Frank Kilgore felt that the high test scores of Southwest Virginia students weren’t getting enough attention, he called up newspapers across the state — not to pitch a story but to buy $10,000 worth of ads trumpeting his region’s …