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McINDOE FALLS — Where books once lined the small private library at the long-shuttered McIndoe Falls Academy, shelves held provisions to help town residents weather the uncertainties brought about by the ongoing pandemic. At the start of the coronavirus crisis, Claudia Heisholt, a trustee of the Academy and wife of the town clerk, Benjamin Heisholt, contacted another new trustee, Jen Crown, and said, “We have to do something.” That “something,” became the Neighbors Helping Neighbors program, based at the Academy building on Route 5, which collects donations every Sunday afternoon and works to discreetly help those who need food. “We were actively brainstorming about a summer market on the lawn … and then everything just stopped,” due to the COVID-19 crisis, Crown said. “For me, it felt like a creative halt, too. And Claudia called and said, ‘We have to do something, this is not going to be good,’… Food is going to run out

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