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Customers at the Food Pavilion in Arlington grocery store talk about its sudden closure on its last day Oct. 14. It had been in town for 55 years.
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ARLINGTON — Like her fellow Arlington Food Pavilion employees, Susan Burris first heard the news on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 14, but she counts herself as lucky, since she was already mostly retired and working part-time at the store. “We could feel something in the
air for a while,” said Burris, who started at the Food Pavilion as a checker in 1978 and had worked her way up to receiving clerk. “The last beer and wine delivery was last week.” The store first opened in 1959, and announced it would close its doors for the last time at 6 p.m. Oct. 14. Burris emphasized that she and
her fellow employees would receive all the pay and compensation they were owed, including vacation hours, but she saw no transfers to other Food Pavilion locations in the employees’ future. “They already closed down Mount Vernon, Burlington and Bellingham, and re-placed all those stores’ employees at other loca-
tions,” Burris said. “All these folks are good, hard-working people, so they’ll find other jobs, but it’s going to be pretty tough on them for a while.” Burris lamented what she sees as the loss of “another small business” to the coming of larger corporate
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SMOKEY POINT — Dueling talking points between the candidates for U.S. and state representative seats, as well as the county executive and sheriff ’s offices, marked the Arlington-Smokey Point Chamber of Commerce’s Oct.
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greater stability for businesses. “I’ve been able to reach across the aisle and do work with a local focus for fourteen years,” said Larsen, who’s pushed for stronger safety measures for oil trains. “I believe in the balanced budget amendment, which my oppoSEE ELECTION, PAGE 2