July 2023. Dark and turbid water swirling past our Barre Partnership office coated the road with muck. Flooded businesses closed, roads became impassable. The sky pressed down, waterlogged and gray.
Alexis Dexter opened Forget-Me-Not Flowers and Gifts in 2016 on a busy corner in downtown Barre. In 2020, she started Kitty Korner Café, Vermont's first.