The Next Two Years, Got Rhubarb? We’re only a few days away now from Tuesday’s special meeting of the Middlebury Selectboard, where you’ll have an opportunity to hear the Vermont Agency of Transportation and its partners Kubricky and VHB preview the 2019-20 construction plan for our downtown rail and bridge project. As I mentioned earlier this month, the event will be held at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society just off Charles Avenue starting at 7 PM. If you

Downtown Color, Banoffi & The Arts Suddenly Memorial Day is just around the corner and Spring is in full bloom. The Neighbors Together team is helping us celebrate both with the return of outdoor planters to Main Street and Merchants Row just in time for the holiday weekend. You’ll see these colorful displays of flowers on the Main Street footbridge, in front of the Merchants Row bridge, and elsewhere around the center of town. A special thank you to Agway for its support an

The Rumor Mill, A Neighbors Together Milestone Did you happen to read the letter to the editor in Monday’s Addison Independent speculating that the temporary lull in our downtown construction project is the result of a labor dispute, a hold-up in federal funding, or unforeseen problems with the construction plan? I hadn’t heard those rumors before. As we discussed in one of my updates a few weeks ago, though, the real explanation, which has to do with the sequencing of const

C U at the UU Let’s get right to this week’s important news. The Middlebury Selectboard and the Vermont Agency of Transportation have scheduled a public meeting for Tuesday, June 4. VTrans and its partners Kubricky and VHB will preview the 2019-20 construction plan, which is scheduled to get underway later this summer. The event will be held at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society just off Charles Avenue starting at 7 PM. Several weeks ago the Selectboard asked

Clean It Up, Ham It Up Working through Thursday’s misting dreariness, the Kubricky paving crew completed one of the last clean-up tasks in Printer’s Alley, repaving the roadway leading from Marble Works into the National Bank’s parking lot. As you can imagine, that stretch has seen a lot of wear and tear during the past 12 months. Kubricky contracts with local suppliers and vendors whenever possible. In this case, the asphalt was trucked in by Bristol’s Heffernan Brothers f