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Written By Hannah Thiessen Howard

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Mary Jeanne Packer knows her business is a study in what can go wrong with a startup venture. “It’s everything you learn in business school playing out for you in Greenwich, N.Y.,” Packer said this week, during a tour of Battenkill Fibers Carding and Spinning Mill on Route 29. The business employs 12 in the manufacture of a variety of wools for both farmers and the commercial yarn industry, and it is still struggling through the aftermath of a June 27, 2010, fire that destroyed much of its machinery and all of its wool stock… Read the full story at The Post Star.

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