BRISTOL / VERGENNES — After a couple of slow and quiet months, downtown Bristol is suddenly abuzz with activity — great yellow machines, masked workers with helmets, excavation, grading, upgrading. The Bristol paving and sidewalk/lighting replacement projects, which were delayed for a month because of the pandemic, are finally under way. The same contractor has also begun work on a paving project in Vergennes — milling a portion of Route 22A/Main Street this week. Workers are closing one lane at a time, wit … (read more)