More Drone Footage, Landscape Design Update, Peace Several people let me know they enjoyed the drone footage of downtown that I shared just before Thanksgiving so I thought I would post a second video. This one, also provided by VTrans Aviation, follows a freight train as it passes southbound through Middlebury and includes brief overhead views of the Launch Pit and Receiving Pit 3. You can link to the YouTube video here. Like the previous video, this one was shot on Tuesday

A Drone’s-Eye View of Downtown, Landscape Design Update VTrans Aviation, the group responsible for managing Vermont’s 10 state airports, was in town recently to capture aerial footage of the rail and bridge project using a drone camera. It’s rare that we have an opportunity to view our town from a few hundred feet up. The drone images provide an interesting perspective of the rail line and Otter Creek and offer a look into Receiving Pit 2 (behind Triangle Park) and the Launc

TBM Heads Home, Winter Sets In, Homemade Lasagna When the last construction vehicle rolls out of Middlebury and the downtown rail and bridge project takes its place in the long line of construction projects that have built our town, one of the more interesting aspects of the work will have been the three months of underground tunneling that took place right in the heart of town. What began in rainy 78 degree weather on Wednesday, August 22, ended Tuesday night in significantl

More Color Downtown; Counting Down the TBM Even as our world slowly turns to brown and gray, more artful color materialized downtown in the form of another public art installation surrounding the Triangle Park construction. The new aquatic-themed work, shown here, was designed by local artist Peg Lawrence, who led the Congregational Church Youth Group in creating the latest addition to the Neighbors Together fence art project. Peg Lawrence and Pat Durfee are 2018-2019 co-pres

St. Stephen’s Activity To Limit Main Street Parking on Thursday Thursday will be a busy day at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the Town Green. A new columbarium will arrive from Minnesota, where it was built, and installed in the chapel. This will mean a temporary loss of parking on the St. Stephen’s side of Main Street, from the crosswalk connecting the Green to the Post Office down to the Main Street temporary bridge, while the columbarium is unloaded. These parking space

New Public Art Downtown; Working Around the Rain While the construction crew busied themselves with downtown paving repairs on the one day this week that rain didn’t fall, an eye-catching new design (reminiscent, perhaps, of traditional embroidery?) brought a cheery message to the public art surrounding the Triangle Park construction. The new work was created by Nick Misani, a freelance designer and letterer whose career has taken him from his native Milan to Japan and New Yo