Clean-Up Time, Maria in Middlebury Construction in Printer’s Alley continues to wind down as Kubricky has now shifted to general clean-up of the construction area. Much of the clean-up is taking place in the Marble Works and will include repaving both the pathway that leads down to the pedestrian bridge across Otter Creek and the roadway leading into the National Bank’s parking lot. Several folks have contacted me about leaning road work signs around town and these, too, are

Thinking Spring, Free T-Shirts Wednesday morning’s frost notwithstanding, isn’t it starting to feel like Spring? The peepers think so! What a joy to hear their Spring call once again. To offset our still largely brown and gray landscape, our Department of Public Works just finished planting 960 pansies around the downtown area for early spring color. Many thanks to Lily Snow for coordinating and planting. DPW is also planning on hanging 16 large baskets of colorful flower

New Homes for Bats, A New Parking Ambassador If you were on the way to morning coffee and an OG at Haymaker earlier this week and happened to glance across Otter Creek, you might have wondered at the unusual-looking contraption that had suddenly appeared on the riverbank. Mystery solved. This week VHB and Kubricky installed two types of artificial bat roosts along Otter Creek in order to mitigate for the loss of known and potential roosting habitat for federally- and state-pr

Downtown Buildings Pass Physical We usually think about the challenges of the downtown construction project in terms of its impact on our business community, our churches and arts organizations, and our daily lives getting around town. Last year several of our historic buildings, those bordering the downtown construction, had to contend with their own out-of-the-ordinary impacts: the blasting of bedrock and the ground vibrations triggered by the tunnel boring machine, the ho