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'King of community journalism' Chip Mundy dies in car crash

It's not often a local reporter is known beyond the schools, neighborhoods and city halls of the places they trod to get the story.

But Chip Mundy, a retired longtime sports reporter for the Jackson Citizen Patriot, was no ordinary reporter. He chose to stay in Jackson, as much as sports reporting chose him, his family said. He wrote about young, emerging athletes because, as he said, so often the pros, the star athletes, followed by the press became jaded by the pursuit, MLive reported.

Longtime Jackson Citizen Patriot sports writer Chip Mundy, 68, died in a car crash on Monday. Mundy is remembered by friends, family and coworkers for being caring and fun, an avid sports fan and passionate storyteller.

So when news of his death in a car crash Monday, Aug.