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Linda Hunter sits in the dining room of her home in Gunter, where concrete batch plants can be seen through the windows. “These are 9 feet of windows,” she said. “They were placed out here so that I could see outside in the country.” (Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune)

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GUNTER — From the big glass windows in her dining room, Linda Hunter has seen her view transformed from grand, green pastures to a row of side-by-side concrete batch plants.