MIDDLEBURY — Fran Bearor has rubbed shoulders with an untold number of people during her half-century as the bookkeeper, manager and jack of all trades at the Agway Farm & Garden store in Middlebury. So talking to people tends to come naturally.Except last Thursday — and that’s only because the person in question was a reporter asking her to say good stuff about herself as she prepared to exit a business to which she has given her entire adult life.But Bearor, 70, did what she’s done for Agway since 1971 — … (read more)
