April 28, 2021
Sun, 05/02/2021 - 1:38pm -- tim In Shrewsbury, Pierces Store, reopened as a cooperative in 2009, is thriving. Manager Elana Levin was too busy for an interview. Photos by C.B. Hall by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine "If you dont have a store, you cant really have a town," Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a New York Times op-ed three years ago. Its a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies â ...