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Police briefly closed a block of Southeast Commercial Street between South Alice Avenue and South Candalaria Boulevard Thursday afternoon after receiving a report of a suspicious package at a nearby business.

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Salem police’s bomb squad responded and determined there was no hazard at the scene, the agency said on Twitter. The road was back open by 3 p.m.

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