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Someone at Hillsborough County has a quirky sense of humor — and knows how to use it to get people to click through what’s normally a typical email from a government office.   

The note is a weekly overview of news, events, updated regulations, etc. In Hillsborough, it comes every Friday and is subtitled “This week’s top five news articles on HCFLGov.net,” the county’s official website. On Friday, Sept. 6, headline No. 4, for example, was “Historic Maps Go Digital,” and No. 5, in a nod to Hurricane Dorian, was “Don’t Throw Your Sandbags Away.” Both were links to informative pieces of county news.