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Elise Paffrath

A deluge of caring

The rebirth of the Putney General Store fills a winter-weary heart with joy

Thanks to the inevitable, if perennially irksome, final roadblock known as Mud Season, which many of us must endure as a passage to springtime, I've skipped the shorter back route home these past weeks and driven the higher and drier blacktop alternative, taking me through the center of Putney.

On the ragged heels of a winter's journey that even this longtime northern girl found grueling, what an unexpected and immensely welcome dose of hope and bloom the mud inadvertently bestowed upon me this year.

Each time I traveled the longer, safer route to town and back, I was rewarded with buoying daily doses of construction progress on the new Putney General Store building.

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