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Speaker 1: It wasn't a grinch like the kind that steals Christmas presents.

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Speaker 1: This grinch vandalized the Anchor in Charles Town last year.

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Speaker 2: All of our electricity, our lighting, our power, our WiFi,

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Speaker 2: everything was torn out in damage which basically shut us

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Speaker 2: down for months.

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Speaker 1: And that meant canceling all winter programming. But that was

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Shelby Lwell, the national program director and

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Speaker 1: VP of Operations at the Anthem Group, which is the

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Speaker 1: Anchor's parent company, tells me they're back in business this

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: This is feeling sort of like our comeback yere, and

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Speaker 3: kind of the moment to prove to everyone that you know,

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Speaker 3: this incident isn't going to stop us going forward, and

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Speaker 3: we're going to come back bigger and better than ever.

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Speaker 1: There's a tree lighting next Thursday at the Anchor before

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Speaker 1: the big kickoff the Frozen Fire Festival that's actually making

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Speaker 1: its Boston debut in Charlestown. I'm a Freedman, WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio