Config::General issue with conf file

chexmix has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings, Monks, and Happy New Year!

I am troubleshooting a script for a colleague. The script creates news items for the "news" space of a website. When he and I run it, we get the following error:

Config::General: Block "<rightbar>" has no EndBlock statement (level: 
+2, chunk 244)!
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This error message is followed by a reference to the line in the script that pulls in the configuration file. That line looks like this:

my $conf = new Config::General(-ConfigFile => './cda/build_pages.conf'
+,
              -InterPolateVars => 1,
              -UseApacheInclude => 1,
              -IncludeRelative => 1);
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The curiosity is that when I examine the configuration file referenced, it has the following lines at the end:

<rightbar>
  <status>
     includefile = $baseurl/incl/LeftBar/status.html
  </status>
  <<include news.conf>>
</rightbar>
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... and I initiate head-scratching, because the <rightbar> block certainly looks properly closed to me. What could I be missing? I have Googled this problem, and other folks' issues definitely seemed to be improperly closed blocks. But here ...?

My only thought was perhaps upgrading the module. Our version is ~2015. But that seems like a "well, I don't know what else to do" move.

Thanks, Glenn

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