MIDDLEBURY — Snow and frigid temperatures will soon give way to mud season, spring flowers and then a cacophony of construction work in downtown Middlebury. Jim Gish, the local liaison to the downtown Middlebury rail bridges project, recently released new details on timing for the most disruptive phase of the $72 million construction project, which will take place this spring: installation of the 360-foot concrete tunnel that will supplant the Main Street and Merchants Row rail bridges. Workers spent much o … (read more)