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Downtown blasting scheduled for Sept. 14-15
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Midd Bridge & Rail Project update By Lou Varricchio
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SALISBURY | The Shard Villa Road river bank stabilization project and subsequent road recycling project began Sept. 9. The road will be closed starting just south of the intersection with Three Mile Bridge Road between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, each week of the project. The bank stabilization portion of the project will take several weeks, lasting into October. After completion of this portion of the project, the road surface will be recycled and repaved. As an alternate travel route, southbound motorists can take Blake Roy Road-Middle Road, from the Three Mile Bridge Road to Columbus Smith Road, from which you can access Shard Villa Road, to the south of the closure area. ■
At the end of August, Middlebur y’s downtown project liaison Jim Gish repor ted that Maine Drilling & Blasting installed steel minipiles along South Pleasant Street. Photo by Jim Gish
Gabrielle: From Girl Scout to fashion model, and more By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
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NEW HAVEN | While Middlebury-native and former fashion model Gabriella Karsch may not be a household name like Twiggy or Veruschka, for those fashionistas hailing from the Swingin’ Sixities, she’s known as the stunning high-fashion model “Gabrielle.” Now you can catch up with “Gabrielle” on Saturday, Sept.14, at noon, at the Sheldon Museum, located at 1 Park St., in downtown Middlebury. The unique event is free to the public. The former ‘60s model, born in Middlebury as
Sally Anita Smith, will talk about her association with Girl Scouting as well as the world of fashion. According to FiftiesWeb.com’s pop history of fashion, “Fashion in the 1960s favored slender figures so the top models were the opposite of the 1950s where hour- glass figures were desired and what the Fashion Houses designed for. Young fresh faces and a more androgynous look is what the buying public saw wearing the ‘60s new fashions.” Karsch had all that and more; she was smart, slender and professionally savvy. See GABRIELLE » pg. 5
MIDDLEBURY | According to Jim Gish, Middlebury construction project community liaison, blasting will get underway the weekend of Sept. 14-15. The renwed blasting is part of the big, multi-year-long bridge and rail project underway in downtown Middlebury. At the end of last month, Gish reported that Maine Drilling & Blasting were in the process of installing steel minipiles along South Pleasant Street. The current pile work, when completed just before Christmas, will help stabilize the slope located above the street level. “Maine D&B has installed 64 of the planned 330 steel minipiles and is on schedule to complete their work in December,” Gish reported in his Aug. 30 emailed newsletter update to residents. Next, the construction team worked along the railroad track near the Bourdon Insurance office located on Merchants Row. According to Gish, “(a) second Maine D&B drilling rig, the one with the annoyingly loud clatter, is expected to complete its work next week drilling a perimeter for the blasting needed to remove bedrock underneath the Main Street Bridge... .” In addition to all the railroad-related work, Gish also noted that a 15-inchdiamter sewer pipe was installed along the rail line in late August, “to replace an older clay sewer pipe that runs on the Otter Creek side of the rail line.” The sewer work will be completed sometime this month and reach as far as will reach the R.R. trestle bridge on Otter Creek. The public can view new project storyboards in front of the Middlebury Post Office on Main Street. Gish said the display will help educate about progress of the construction project. ■
$3,000 lottery money grab coming to Pratt’s Store By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
BRIDPORT | “Take the money and run” may be the theme song at Pratt’s Store in Bridport this month. Why? The store’s staff is gearing up for the Vermont Lottery’s Cash-n-ator booth which will visit the store located at 2504 Route 22A on Sept. 25. As part of celebrating 50 years as a local family business serving Bridport and many surrounding communities, Pratt’s is pulling out the stops for its upcoming lottery event. The talked-about “cash booth”, the star of the Lottery’s 2019 Cash Craze Tour, will make a oneday only Addison County appearance at Pratt’s, on Wednesday Sept. 25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. “The Vermont Lottery Commission members will be coming with their cash booth and that means that, every 15 minutes, two winners will be drawn,” said Pratt’s Stacey Stone “One winner will receive a $50 gift card to Pratt’s Store and the other will have
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a chance in the cash booth to catch as much money as they can, up to $3,000.” To get a chance at the cash, participants will need to purchase a $10 lottery ticket at Pratt’s that day for their chance to be in the drawing. Ah, but there’s more to this event (and life, for that matter) than all that moola; there’s good food at Pratt’s and so, perhaps, the key to true happiness lies not in your wallet but Celebrating 50 years as in your stomach. a local family business “There will be many in Bridport, Pratt’s Store other give-aways, lots is pulling out the stops of free food, cheese for its Sept. 25 Vermont selections, and Lottery Cash-n-ator event. samples from Wood Pictured: Pratt’s staff with Chuck Cider, Bridport Stacey Stone, Debbie Creamery and other Cram, Alina Jean, Amye local businesses,” Flero, Darwin Pratt, Corey Stone added. Pratt and Amber Trudeau. To take a stab at Photo by Lou Varricchio Pratt’s Cash-n-ator cash grab, you must be age 18 and older. ■