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Courtesy Of Nick Landry After an eight-year effort to open a brick-and-mortar food co-op in Barre, members of the Granite City Grocery will be voting online between May 28 and June 18 to either elect a new board of directors or to dissolve entirely. In February, a Seven Days reader asked us about yard signs that had popped up on lawns throughout Barre that ...

Christmas spirit MONTPELIER — Cameron O’Connor and Lloyd Richards are huge boosters of the Montpelier Food Pantry. Their kids are now grown, and the College Street couple well-known for their dogs, Willie and Buddy, decided to do some unconventional Christmas shopping this year. Richards will tell you it was his wife’s idea and O’Connor will insist the focus should be on the food pantry, which serves a vital purpose in the community and, she fears, could struggle in 2021 as ...