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Roy Gero brings old machinery back to life. And when he's not working, the 85-year-old Super Senior is a familiar sight around town.

New life for a rambling, 125-year-old hardscrabble hardware store ‘Boy, this community relies on us’ By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated March 13, 2021, 8:13 a.m. Email to a Friend Art LaPlante and Mark Royer own the E.M. Brown & Son, Inc. hardware store that is celebrating its 125-year-anniversary. LaPlante paused to reflect in the upstairs retail area.Lane Turner/Globe Staff BARTON, Vt. — It’s a rambling old place, a beloved five-story, pale-blue clapboard buildin...