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People partaking of Big Ed’s BBQ’s annual free Thanksgiving dinner have a choice this year. They can get in the drive-through lane, as most of them have over the past 15 years, or they can come inside and be served the same meal at a long table with other community members.

Since Ed Nero moved his restaurant from its original spot on Lakehurst Road to a former banquet hall a few hundred yards south, he has more than five times the space. Now he wants to give people a chance to sit at a table and be served a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings.

Serving 150 people at a time, Nero said the sit-down meal provides something more than eating the food. Some may come with their families, and others may come by themselves. At this time of year,

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