Summer Fun on the Green, Remembering the Lazarus Family The Highlights Lazarus Park ceremony scheduled for Saturday, August 21 Labyrinth assembled in Printer’s Alley Those high curbs on Main Street Having spent last summer on the sidelines, St. Stephen’s Peasant Market and Middlebury’s Festival on the Green are ready to return to downtown Middlebury. Peasant Market, a fixture on the Town Green since 1947, takes place this coming Saturday, July 31, between 9 AM and 1 PM. Here

Progress in Lazarus Park The Highlights Trees and shrubs in Printer’s Alley Middlebury from on high Henry at 200 The greening of central downtown took a major step forward this week with the planting of 16 new trees and dozens of shrubs, transforming downtown spaces that until now had looked decidedly under construction. Earlier in the week, landscaping subcontractor Landshapes planted a mix of sugar maple, red oak, and serviceberry trees in Middlebury’s new Lazarus Park and

Flowers, Trees & Grass The Highlights Green spaces taking shape as construction winds down Rail platform poured A new spot for lunch I’ve been advised by a confidante that the weekly update has spent too much time lately covering concrete: forming it, pouring it, replacing it, etc. So this week let’s turn our attention instead to the greening of our downtown spaces. We’ll start in Triangle Park, where on Tuesday St. Stephen’s brought in Joan Lynch and her crew from The Inner

More Progress in a Short Work Week The Highlights Repaving of Routes 125 and 30 gets underway Railing on the north cap wall Abbey Road revisited Monday’s day off made for a short work week this first full week of July as we edge ever closer to our August 17 project completion date. It was a week, as most recently have been, of steady progress across the project. Before we commence with our customary weekly round-up, I wanted to let you know, if you haven’t already driven this

Getting Ready for the Fourth The Highlights Tidying up Triangle Park Waterline removal on Middle Seymour next Tuesday Last year at this time found us navigating the early months of Covid and just two weeks shy of the 10-week shutdown of Main Street and Merchants Row that saw Middlebury’s downtown rail tunnel constructed. Today, life in our community seems well on the way to returning to its pre-pandemic rhythms and the project that has been a part of our lives for a solid fou