The weather seems to have stabilized a bit, but it’s still not raining very often. Good for Streetscape, bad for the vegetable gardens! We broke a few eggs this week, the crew has been working hard to wrap up the sidewalks around the Post Office on Bridge Street. There’s a nice walkway now leading down from the Town Hall parking lot. The intersection of North and Bridge is beginning to look very different. Stay tuned, there’s more to come. The corner of Main and Front Street has been a challenge to say the least. An underground mountain of solid granite was discovered during excavation, along with a conglomerate of underground utilities that has made it difficult for some pre-existing components of the project to be moved per plan. As I have said in the past, the Martin-Laviero crew led by Project Manager Jerry Dionne has found creative ways to get things done despite hardships like shallow ledge rock, or multiple underground utilities in a tight area. Not always exactly to plan, but always attractive, functional and durable. Kudos to him and the crew. Material shortages continue to plague the construction industry. For our part, we continue to press our supplier for a delivery of radius granite curbing, necessary to complete the project. With all the underground granite at the corner of Main & Front we could have probably cut our own curbing.

I’ve noticed  quite a few Collinsville dogs out walking their owners lately. It reminded me of a poem: “A dog on a walk is like a person in love-you can’t tell them it’s the same old world”- Pat Owen, St. Paul Minnesota.

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