Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust celebrated its 35th anniversary this year by commemorating 35,000 acres conserved since 1986 and launching plans for the next 35,000 acres. “Protecting our trails, woodlands, and watersheds are not only critical for.
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Randy White is the first to acknowledge that some people might be wondering if he has lost his mind.
“Let’s buy a restaurant during a pandemic?” White puts the question to himself. “Most people would say this guy has lost his rocker. But I see an opportunity.”
That “opportunity” was to reopen Farmer’s Table Cafe, adjacent to Rum Brook Market at Exit 13 off Interstate 89 in Grantham, a couple weeks ago. The restaurant had been closed since March when previous owner Sara Hastings shut it down during the first wave of the pandemic.
White, a former Dartmouth-Hitchcock IT specialist whose rock band often played gigs at the cafe, purchased it from Hastings “name, decor, the whole works” and brought back many of the restaurant’s kitchen crew and front house staff, along with “95% of the menu.”