Progress in Printer’s Alley, More Sewer Line Work on Tap Hopefully you and your trick-or-treaters collected a few choice treats before Thursday’s rain arrived in force. That rain—and some unexpected news encountered underground during the week—slowed progress on completing the sewer line work taking place this week in front of the National Bank and down Printer’s Alley. As a result, both the sidewalk on Main Street between the National Bank’s Duclos Building and the Post Offi

Printer’s Alley Closing Next Week, A Spooky Sunday Regular readers of our weekly construction update will be familiar by now with the new sewer line that Kubricky has been constructing alongside the train tracks behind South Pleasant Street and Water Street for the past several weeks. That segment of the line—running from a sewer manhole at the Otter Creek trestle bridge near Water Street to the town’s pump station at the foot of the Battell Block parking lot—is now complete

Weekend Recap, Closing Out October It was a memorable weekend. Picture-perfect mid-October weather. Fall foliage at peak. A holiday. Middlebury College’s Homecoming. Oh yes, and construction activity up and down the downtown rail corridor in the busiest of the four Fall weekends on which construction will take place this year. During the weekend the construction team conducted seven blasts in central downtown and relocated town utilities at three locations along the rail

A Holiday Blast, A Benefit for the Bahamas The fabulous Fall weather that followed Monday's deluge has been much welcomed by all those working on our downtown construction project! There's a lot to report on, so let's right to it. Weekend Work Plan As I mentioned in last week’s update, Vermont Rail will again suspend operations this coming weekend—starting early Friday morning and ending Monday morning—so that Maine Drilling & Blasting can continue blasting bedrock in prepar

Weather Cools, Work Heats Up, Miles Smiles? When you start looking for the scraper and thinking about the winter tire change-over, it’s a sure sign that Fall has arrived. That was the case this week as overnight temps dipped into the 30s. And that means that the race is on to complete this year’s construction before Winter follows. Your Weekly Construction Update The drilling of minipiles—those central structural elements for stabilizing the slope on either side of the rail