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Some ask if security grants too costly for cities, towns

By Tom Long
Globe Correspondent / February 11, 2007

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When the city of Portsmouth, N.H., took delivery of a new fireboat late last year, it wasn't paid for by the city or the state. The $350,000, 33-foot, twin-diesel watercraft was bought with money provided by a federal homeland security grant. (Full article: 954 words)

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