By Sean Ridgway, TME

He doesn’t nor has he ever lived in the mountains, but Gene Porter, the local FedEx driver for the last five years, is as much a part of this community as anyone.

Porter is best known to residents as “Gene Gene the Shipping Machine,”…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: “Gene Gene the Shipping Machine” with Santa Claus

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