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haven t done for us these past 15 months? Vermonters piled praise upon supermarkets, co-ops and general stores alike for their myriad pandemic pivots that kept us safe and well stocked. Curbside pickup at Montpelier s
Hunger Mountain Co-op made those of us older and higher-risk people feel so lucky and protected, said one shopper. It took the anxiety away. I can t imagine what pandemic shopping without this service would have been like. Another agreed: They deserve a parade and many medals of honor. Without the
Jericho Center Country Store, our lives would have been much more isolated and lonely, another shopper weighed in. The cooks and clerks always asked, as did Jon St. Amour, the owner, what they might do for me, since I am 83 and live alone down the street from the store.
Matt Dow, Wastewater facilities manager, Burlington Matt Dow has spent most of his adult life talking about what happens after you flush the toilet. click image The second-generation wastewater operator manages the City of Burlington s three treatment plants. His late father was the superintendent of the South Burlington wastewater plant, and his mother s cousin runs the Essex facility. Needless to say, it wasn t uncommon for sewage to be a topic of dinnertime conversation. These days Dow, 40, is more likely to be found behind a desk than out in the field, but the coronavirus pandemic offered him a hands-on assignment. Last summer, Dow and the city s COVID-19 Analytics Team began testing wastewater for viral markers of the coronavirus to track and prevent outbreaks. Dow, a 16-year department veteran, chose the testing locations, collected specimens from manholes and packaged up h