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IN TIME OF CORONAVIRUS As Need Grows, Local Food Banks Welcoming Needy By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – In an average shopping trip, Laura Eggleston, Milford Food Pantry director, might buy 1,100 pounds of food to serve their 39 households. On Monday, April 13, she placed an order for 4,300 pounds. “In these last two weeks, we’ve served 56 families,” she said. “That’s 193 individuals.” As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, food banks across the county are seeing “a…