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Kidnapper’s parole renews interest in dusty ag museum

Way out on Plainsburg Road, about a couple miles each way between Highway 99 and the town of Le Grand, there’s a huge metal building — a warehouse, if you will — that’s the exact size of a football field. It’s surrounded by rows and rows of almond trees, and the workshops of the old Bright’s Nursery operation established in 1945.…