by Joelyn Leon | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
City Engineer Abdul Quadir said the project “was ready to go to bid in 2005 but due to lack of funding has been postponed many times.” Quadir said the culvert has poor subsurface conditions and extensive piling — the installation of new columns — will be...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
The hearing will take place during the next Operations Committee meeting March 20. The rehabilitation of the bridge was estimated to cost $6.7 million, according to a report from construction and engineering firm BL Companies. The bridge was built in 1888 and closed...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Northern Middlesex YMCA is getting closer to raising the millions it needs to renovate its historic building, transforming it into a modern, state-of-the-art community center. So far, the All Together Better campaign has garnered about $15 million in state, local...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Time is running out to save the Timex Group headquarters, considered by some as a gem of 21st-century corporate architecture but by others, a property that has left a small western Connecticut town divided over its place in future economic development. In the face of...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
About a decade ago, when Mayor N. Warren “Pete” Hess was first elected to office, one of the biggest complaints he heard from residents was on the condition of the roads. The Board of Mayor and Burgesses approved at its March 4 meeting a modified five-year...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A long-awaited report on the future of the city school system’s aging facilities recommends the district shutter seven school buildings, construct four new ones and perform major renovations on eight others. Pat Gallagher, a community planner with MP Planning Group,...
