Turkey Trot turns 20

 

 

by Matthew Wil­son

BAR­TON — The streets here were filled with jog­ging and walk­ing peo­ple on Thanks­giv­ing morn­ing as the an­nual Turkey Trot re­turned.  The event had seen a pause dur­ing the coro­n­avirus pan­demic but, fol­low­ing the two-year hia­tus, the ben­e­fit run once more wel­comed run­ners to come out be­fore the feast­ing of the hol­i­day be­gan.

Be­fore the run­ning started, the par­tic­i­pants col­lected their num­bers at the Bar­ton Memo­r­ial Build­ing.  Gail Ro­bitaille, one of the even­t’s or­ga­niz­ers, was happy to see so many peo­ple com­ing out to both run and spec­tate.

“We had al­most 150 pre-reg­is­tered run­ners,” Ms. Ro­bitaille said. …

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