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Photo: Grant Spates owner of Spates Construction at his sugarhouse. Courtesy photo from Grant Spates.
by Joyce Marcel, Vermont Business Magazine People say it s hard to make a living in Vermont, but it s even harder to make a living in the Northeast Kingdom. The north country has always been the state s economic stepchild, rich in natural resources but poor in population and almost everything else.
You have to be stubborn and determined to make your business thrive there. And general contractor Grant Spates, the owner of Spates Construction, Inc, is making it work, and on his own terms, too. ....

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