Businesses are having trouble hiring enough drivers to clear lots and driveways, and the Department of Transportation also is understaffed heading into winter.
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Plowed out: Age, cost, hours are pushing more plow drivers to hang it up
Business has been pretty good lately at Reggie’s Sales & Service in Auburn. It could be just the normal gear-up for winter, with customers looking at new snowblowers or servicing old ones. But, owner Reggie Emery thinks there’s something else in play. He estimated that recently, more than 25 people have been in his store […]
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Plow 1, Mailbox 0.
Earlier this winter, a plow truck took out Beth Holloway’s Litchfield mailbox. She put up a replacement. Before too long, another plow snapped that one in two. “They also ruined my rock wall around the back of the mailbox where I put my flowers,” Holloway said. Mike Blanchet in Farmington hired a bucket loader to dig […]
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Clearing snow to take longer on some sidewalks in Jay
JAY — Snow clearing on sidewalks on a section of Route 4, which recently underwent reconstruction, will most likely be slower this winter than in the past. With about 900 feet of new guardrail and some mailboxes installed on the street-edge of new sidewalks, snow will need to be blown away, Public Works Director John […]
Posted inFranklin
Jay considering RSU 73’s request to plow school properties in the town
JAY — Town officials are looking into whether it is feasible to plow the Jay school properties and what the cost would be to provide the service. Regional School Unit 73 representatives asked town officials in each of the school district’s towns if there’s an interest in plowing school properties in each town, Jay Town […]