{"id":64044,"date":"2019-04-01T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=64044"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:20:00","slug":"our-town-with-grant-nickalls-closing-main-street-for-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-town-with-grant-nickalls-closing-main-street-for-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Closing Main Street for the summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each week, Huntsville&#8217;s own Grant Nickalls will inspire us, entertain us, make us laugh or perhaps cry, but always he will remind us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This week in Our Town, Grant on plans in the works to shut down Huntsville&#8217;s Main Street for the summer in 2019, complete with grass, as a practice run for construction work in 2020. 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