Archive - 2009 - simplenews

ADDISON — The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) today announced that the Lake Champlain Bridge demolition has been rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 28, at 10 a.m. due to the formation of ice on Lake Champlain and severely cold temperatures which have delayed work to prepare the bridge for demolition.

ADDISON — New York and Vermont transportation authorities have tentatively set Wednesday, Dec. 23, as the date on which an Idaho-based company will demolish the Champlain Bridge.

Details were still being firmed up on Friday morning.

MIDDLEBURY — Sources this morning confirmed that Vermont Gov. James Douglas will announce today that he will not seek reelection in 2010.

The Middlebury Republican, who is serving his fourth term as governor, will make the announcement at an 11 a.m. press conference from the governor’s ceremonial office at the Statehouse.

Douglas has served 36 years in public office. A Massachusetts native, he was first elected to the Vermont House in 1972, the year he graduated from Middlebury College.

By KATHRYN FLAGG
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After weeks of pleading their case for struggling dairymen in Washington, D.C., Vermont’s Congressional delegation finally made a breakthrough Friday, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the Obama administration is taking immediate action to boost prices paid to dairy farmers.

By ANDY KIRKALDY
ADDISON — As of Friday, traffic on the Crown Point Bridge, which links Addison with Crown Point, N.Y., will be reduced to one lane to allow New York Department of Transportation workers to perform repairs to the span’s steel trusses.

NYDOT spokesman Peter Van Keuren said traffic will be limited to one lane on the bridge until at least the end of August while work is done on its structure, and a 40-ton weight limit will also be imposed on trucks.