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Plaidurday fills downtown

By TOM LAVENTURE

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IRONWOOD - First Friday October could have doubled as the feast of flannel as people filled Aurora Street to take part in "Plaidurday".

Hundreds of people in all colors and combinations of plaid shirts, coats, hats and other apparel filled Aurora between Lowell and Suffolk streets as photographers and videographers clicked away from rooftops and camera drones zoomed above. It was part of an effort to get all of the Upper Peninsula communities to participate in the "worldwide celebration of plaid," according to the Happy Plaidurday Facebook page...