QOTD: Which are the vital organs?

Small towns and villages throughout the North Country are losing the institutions that make them a going concern, instead of just another rural housing cluster. It might be the last bank, as in Sarah Harris’s story today from Alburgh, VT. Or it might be the hospital, or the nursing home, the school or the library, the only department store, the last gas station or the post office or the town diner.

Today’s Question of the Day is:

Which institutions are the vital organs in your community? How’s their health?

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3 Comments on “QOTD: Which are the vital organs?”

  1. tootightmike says:

    A good hardware is absolutely essential. Most of St Lawrence County’s outlying small towns have lost their hardware stores over the last thirty years. The annoying drive into a bigger town when you’re trying to fix something turns into a routine trip after a while…then we buy our gas, and our groceries, and do a bit of banking…and pretty soon there’s nothing left in the little town where we live.

  2. Pete Klein says:

    Schools are the most important. They trump everything. Next I would list convenience stores that sell gas, followed by a grocery store and a hardware store.

  3. tootightmike says:

    Pete’s right. Take a look at those towns where schools have been “combined” . Russell, Edwards, Hermon, Dekalb…just about every town that once had a school has become a bit of a ghost town after having it’s heart removed.

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