Article: Feeding a suburban need Lexington food pantry offers sustenance, compassion

LEXINGTON -- Even in this affluent town, dozens of people go to the Lexington Interfaith Outreach Food Pantry every week near the Battle Green, leaving with fresh fruits and vegetables as well as canned goods, bread and other staples.

"They're very nice," Betty Cronier, a 62-year-old disabled Lexington woman, said of the volunteers who distribute food to her and others every Saturday morning from 9:30 to 11 in the basement hall at the Church of Our Redeemer on Meriam Street.

Others at the pantry on two recent Saturdays included Stephanie Keane, 45, once homeless and now living in what amounts to a shelter here; Dominick Morley, 38, of Lexington, a former design engineer recovering from ...

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