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Northshore October 2025
With the intensity and thoughtfulness of one who contemplates the night sky, wondering what it means to be human, Dean Harvey ponders the chili cook’s existential quandary. Beans or no beans? It’s a subject that "Mean" Dean—Harvey’s chili cook-off nickname—can debate endlessly. Does chili have beans? The purists say no. But the average guy on the street says yes. If most people expect beans, then what is chili when it’s beanless? It’s like wondering about the tree falling in the woods. "I am a twisted man to have this much thought about chili," laughs Harvey, 43, a Gloucester resident who, whi
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