Letter to the Editor: Let’s all just slow down

I champion walking and biking to school and put out lawn signs reminding drivers to SLOW DOWN for a safer town. I wear a banana costume to teach that yellow is the best color to see from a distance and the color that warns us to SLOW DOWN.  I was driving on a winter night in harrowing weather with our lawn signs to show and tell our town’s low-cost effort in traffic calming and returning home when I was stopped for speeding. Apparently, I relaxed as the wide flat road opened before me with my foot on the ac … (read more)

Neighbors of a proposed 32-unit apartment building that would be located near the intersection of Middle Road and Route 7 in Middlebury are concerned the new structure would be too big and would add traffic to an already congested area.

I read with interest “Middlebury readies new traffic plan” in the Nov. 25, 2019, edition. It certainly would have been helpful if there was a map included that depicted the changes described. Actually, with any article that describes a geographic location … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The scheduled 10-week closure of Middlebury’s Main Street and Merchants Row is still around six months away, but town officials have already mapped out and approved a plan for temporarily re-routing traffic and reconfiguring parking spaces du … (read more)