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Patch Passes 1 Million Articles Published

We keep growing.

Patch sites across the United States reached 1 million published articles this week, with Imperial Beach Patch alone contributing nearly 1,300 stories.

That's roughly 382 million words, according to Patch Editor-in-Chief Brian Farnham. Click here to read a blog he wrote about the milestone.

Patch.com currently has websites in 23 states and more than 850 cities, with 600 sites launched in the last eight months.

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