Deb Fountain was a federal employee for 32 years. As an FAA Management Analyst/Consultant, she worked with engineers and flight test pilots. Now, she delights in watching honeybees take flight in the pollinator garden she helped create outside the Pepperell Public Library.

Retirement has afforded her an opportunity to reconnect with what she loves. "Being outdoors," she explains. "And that love has only grown." It was also in retirement that she joined the town's Master Plan Committee. At the time, she recommended that Pepperell address a problem that plagues almost every community in Massachusetts-invasive plants.

Deb says it's actually a national problem. "But it hasn't been addressed at the national level. So, communities in our area are doing what they can to tackle it themselves," s

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