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MAJ-10 / MAJ-11 MIXED · THE COUNTER-COURSE DUG, THE TEXTURE STANDING
The checklist's last pair asks after the town's second unwinding — the long late-century thinning of its industry — and after the Great Recession's local pass; the record reached answers the second with numbers and the first with its counter-current. For 2008–09 the frame is BLS arithmetic: Indiana's seasonally adjusted unemployment averaged 4.6 percent in 2007, 5.9 percent in 2008, and 10.0 percent in 2009, with monthly rates peaking near 10.4 percent in mid-2009 — the county's own annual series (Local Area Unemployment Statistics, carried by FRED as LAUCN181410000000003A) is named as the settler for the county-exact figures, and the Independent-News' 2008–09 run for the town's texture, neither extracted at line strength in this section. What unwound, on the banked businesses record, unwound in the smaller tier — the pickle and door era's successors and the retail street's churn — and that texture stands in the businesses record and the Independent's 1985–2026 runs, named here as settlers rather than reprinted. Both items close mixed: the frames dug, the textures standing with their settlers named.
Principal sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, LAUS annual averages for Indiana (2007–2009) and the St. Joseph County series (FRED LAUCN181410000000003A, identified); the banked businesses record of this build; the August 2026 Polygon announcement.