There's a good chance of running into someone you know at the diner in the center of town. On any given day, odds are I'll run into someone I know in the diner. In 2011, Tropical Storm Irene decimated it (it hovers over a river), and the townspeople were beside themselves. The New York Times even wrote an article about it titled, "In Vermont, a Town That Would Not Let Its Diner Go." Although the diner belongs to Reagan (her co-owner and husband, John, died in 2017), as The New York Times put it, "everyone, it seems, has a claim."

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Persons: Gilmore, Lauren Harkawik Dot's, Irene, Patty Reagan, Reagan, John Organizations: New York Times Locations: Dot's, Vermont