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Founded 69 years ago in Milford, N.H., the company expanded in the 90s and 2000s with locations in Brentwood and Concord, N.H. “With a reputation for a commitment to customer satisfaction and product support second to none, the Chappell family has Chappell Tractor has opened a new facility in Hopedale, Mass. developed a great following,” said Brad Chappell, partner Company.

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Greenway’s ‘Clippership Connector’ Takes Shape in Medford This summer, workers are building a missing link along Massachusetts’s Mystic River greenways that will bring the network of riverfront paths into downtown Medford, located north of Boston.

The Clippership Connector path is relatively short — only about a halfmile long — but it will give Medford a safe, relatively scenic way to get across Interstate 93, a major barrier in the city for pedestrians, and connect the downtown area with its riverfront parks and schools in the fast-growing districts near the Wellington Orange Line transit station.

The path will follow the northern bank of the Mystic River from Medford’s Clippership Park before crossing under the freeway and connecting to the existing Riverbend Park path network behind Madeleine Dugger Andrews Middle School.

It also threads its way between several densely-packed and privately-owned properties, which created some challenging design constraints. At several points, the pathway will run along elevated boardwalks, like the one currently being constructed around the edge of the Medford Housing Authority’s property just west of I-93, to minimize impacts to the riverbanks.

While it is common for people to start using new trails while they are still under construction, that is not really an option in Medford — at least for the time being.

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making and represents a partnership between the state, the city, local advocacy groups and private organizations.

When the link is completed, it will connect 10 mi. of contiguous greenways through the Mystic River Reservation, one of the original five reservations delineated by the Metropolitan Park Commission in 1893.

Located in five communities — Boston, Arlington, Medford, Everett and Somerville — the reservation has undergone many initiatives to protect open space and to provide contiguous greenspaces, pedestrian and bicycle connections, and active recreation facilities.

DCR has been working to implement the most recent master plan that was published in 2009.

Needless to say, the Connector project has been one of the more challenging aspects of the plan and the construction marks a milestone in its completion, the department noted in a news release.

“DCR manages a vast trail network across the Commonwealth that provides communities with critical connections for economic opportunity, recreation and environmentally friendly commuting,” said Brian Arrigo, the state agency’s commissioner at 2023’s groundbreaking event. “The Clippership Connector Greenway will build healthy communities by allowing them to walk,

Since the project began in 2018, DCR has invested nearly $750,000 in the design and permitting of the Clippership Connector Greenway project. fencing, making it impossible to access while work is ongoing, according to StreetsblogMASS. For those looking to walk or bike between Medford Square and the other existing Mystic River paths to the southeast, their best option is to take Riverside Avenue from Medford Square, then cut south on Freedom Way to access the riverfront behind the middle school.

Connector Links 10 Miles of Greenways in Five Cities In October 2020, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) presented its final plans for the Clippership Connector, but it was not until last fall that the agency and the city of Medford were finally able to celebrate the beginning of construction on the greenway.

The new trail is nearly a decade in the

bike, and run along a section of the Mystic River that, to date, has been blocked from public access.”

Since the project began in 2018, DCR has invested nearly $750,000 in the design and permitting of the Clippership Connector Greenway project. The construction is an additional $4 million investment funded through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

The project is a collaboration between DCR, the city of Medford, the Mystic River Watershed Association, WalkMedford and the Solomon Foundation through the DCR Partnership Grant Program.

“The Clippership Connector truly connects our community, from Medford Square and the Senior Center to the Mystic River, to schools and parks, and, importantly, a whole bike network,” noted state Rep. Christine P. Barber, D-34th Middlesex. “The result of a partnership between city and state partners, along with local advocates at Mystic River Watershed Association and WalkMedford, is this multi-use path will help to address climate change and improve mobility and quality of life for people in Medford and beyond.”

In addition to maximizing opportunities for riverfront views for the community and increasing accessibility for people of all ages and abilities, DCR noted that the trail also improves the habitat and ecology of the riverbank.

The state agency anticipates construction on the greenway to be completed by 2025. 

Work Progresses On Highway Interchange in Taunton After the abrupt halt of work last fall on the multi-million dollar and multi-year construction project for the Massachusetts Highway 24/140 interchange in Taunton, crews were back on the site last winter with a new contractor.

Manafort Brothers Inc., with offices in Worcester, Mass., and Cumberland, R.I., took over the project on Jan. 5 after the original contractor walked off the job, according to Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) spokesperson John Goggin.

Manafort provides specialty construction and demolition services as well as general contracting services primarily in the northeastern United States. The firm is a prequalified MassDOT contractor, Goggin added, meaning no vetting is needed as it has done work for the state agency before.

With crews working again at the interchange southeast of downtown Taunton, the project includes:

• Construction of a new Mass. 24 southbound ramp to northbound Mass. 140 northbound.

• Widening Mass. 24 to three travel lanes on both sides, plus acceleration and deceleration lanes at interchange ramps.

• Replacing several bridges, including the Mass. 24 span across Mass. 140, in addition to a pair of bridges on Mass. 24 above several railroad tracks to be used as train lines for South Coast Rail.

• Reconstructing the interchange ramps between the two highways, including two lane entrance ramps from Mass. 140.

• Building a bypass lane on southbound Mass. 140, between the Mass. 24 north and south ramps.

• Widening Mass. 140 for additional turning lanes and a bypass lane.

• Drainage work, including an extension of the culvert on the Cotley River.

When asked by the Taunton news source, Goggin did not specify how much of this work had already been completed

by the former contractor.

The construction is currently listed as 20 percent complete, according to MassDOT’s listing of highway division projects.

After previously estimated to be finished by summer 2027, last year’s delays have pushed the new completion date to the fall of 2027, Goggin told the Gazette.

Manafort Brings Impressive Track Record to Taunton Last November, Goggin told the Gazette that whoever was the replacement contractor would be doing it under the original terms and agreed upon costs of the project.

The previous builder had initially won the construction bid in late 2020 for $116.5 million.

The current $139.2 total project price tag includes a contingency fund, construction engineering and traffic police details.

The original builder on the Mass. 24/140 interchange started work at the site in May

2021 before officially suspended operations in October 2023. It had been dealing with financial troubles and went out of business at the end of the year, according to the Providence Journal.

Manafort’s portfolio of work in the two New England states has included rehabilitation and demolition of at-grade railroad crossings associated with South Coast Rail, structural concrete work for New Bedford’s Marine Commerce Terminal, foundation and concrete work for a residence hall at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, all the concrete and steel work for Worcester’s Polar Park, massive renovation work for St. Mary’s Hall at Boston College, and civil engineering, utility and excavation work associated with new office, housing. and retail buildings in Somerville’s Union Square.

Additionally, Manafort is the main contractor for the 1,295-ft.-long Providence Viaduct Bridge project on Interstate 95 in Rhode Island. 

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Work Wraps Up — New $378M Medical Center Set to Open With its construction recently completed, Maine Medical Center (MMC) in Portland is scheduled to begin admitting patients June 9 to its new 300,000-sq.-ft. Malone Family Tower, located on Congress Street.

The new $378 million facility, which will primarily serve cardiac and cardiovascular patients, is the final piece of the medical center’s multi-year expansion and modernization effort to enhance patient access to hospital-based care, create more private rooms and help facilitate better patient outcomes.

At eight stories tall, the Malone Family Tower increases MMC’s capacity to care for patients and represents a significant modernization of its facilities. The building includes 96 private patient rooms, 10 operating rooms, nine procedure rooms, and 40 pre- and post-procedure beds.

Sitting atop the tower will be a new 20,000-sq.-ft. sterile processing department (SPD) that will serve all of the operating and procedure rooms at MMC. The building also features ample space for patients and visitors as well as multi-disciplinary collaboration and learning for care team members.

The Malone Family Tower’s glass exterior is designed to bring in natural light and transform a major gateway into the city of MaineHealth photo Portland.

The new $378 million facility, which will primarily serve cardiac and cardiovascular patients, is the final piece of the medical Visitors to the facility will be able to drive center’s multi-year expansion and modernization effort to enhance patient access to hospital-based care, create more private up and drop off patients before directly rooms and help facilitate better patient outcomes. accessing MMC’s patient and visitor garage on Congress Street; valet parking also will to [do so] both today and for tomorrow.” fiscally responsible investment,” noted community, the hospital noted. be available at the tower’s entrance. In addiMMC performs the most cardiac and car- Crewse. “The Malone Family Tower was The tower is named in recognition and tion, the Congress Street entrance will sup- diovascular procedures in Maine, including built with an eye toward Maine’s future, in appreciation of John and Leslie Malone, plement the hospital’s main entrance on more than 1,200 open heart surgeries, keeping with the MaineHealth vision of whose $25 million donation to The NEXT Bramhall Street. approximately 5,000 catheter-based proce- working together so our communities are the 150|The Campaign for Maine Medical “The Malone Family Tower is a much- dures and about 600 ablations a year. healthiest in America. Many people — from Center in 2021 was the largest single philanneeded investment in our patients, our care city, state and federal officials to clinical thropic gift in MMC’s history. team, and our entire region,” explained Hospital’s Modernization Effort experts to construction and trades profesThe Malones joined more than 2,600 MaineHealth Southern Region President Began in 2018 sionals — kept us on track and we are so benefactors in supporting the capital camBritt Crewse. “Without a doubt, the modern The Malone Family Tower was created grateful to them all.” paign between 2017 and 2023, which raised clinical care space in this facility will with sustainability in mind, according to a The completion of the Malone Family $179 million in designated funds to support improve our ability to serve our state’s most news release from MMC. The facility is Tower marks the end of MMC’s expansion MMC’s mission through facility expansion acutely ill patients with the highest-quality designed to be Leadership in Energy and and modernization project that began con- and modernization, workforce development care.”

Environmental Design (LEED) Silver struction in 2018, which also included: and innovation and clinical research.

It also was developed to meet a growing Certified and its construction materials are • An expansion of the hospital’s patient Maine Medical Center, recognized as a need for cardiac and cardiovascular care in recycled whenever possible. The tower also and visitor parking garage, completed in Best Regional Hospital by U.S. News and the region with flexible spaces that promote has a “green roof” to reduce water runoff, 2019.

World Report for 2023-2024, is a complete collaboration and innovation among mem- minimize any “heat island” effect, and offer • The addition of two additional floors health care resource for the people of Greater bers of MMC’s nationally recognized car- a calming space for patients and care team containing a total of 64 private rooms as well Portland and the entire state, in addition to diovascular care team. By adding 32 inten- members. as the Linda and Diana Bean Sisters Heliport northern New England. sive care unit (ICU)-level beds to the hospiAdditionally, the tower provides a much- atop MMC’s Coulombe Family Tower, also Incorporated in 1868, MMC is the state’s tal, MMC’s total number of ICU beds will needed enhancement to MMC’s campus finished in 2019. largest medical center, licensed for 700 beds increase to more than 100. infrastructure, which was built out over sev• The 2020 completion of a new parking and employing more than 9,600 people. The “[The hospital’s] cardiovascular team pro- eral decades. The new building was com- garage for the MMC care team. facility’s role as both a community hospital vides extraordinary care, and with the pleted on time and on budget, despite facing • A new medical office building opened in and a referral center require an unparalleled Malone Family Tower we have a facility that numerous construction challenges during 2021 and dedicated to specialty care on depth and breadth of services, including an matches that high bar,” said Joel Botler, the pandemic and a period of significant MMC’s Scarborough campus. active educational program and a worldMaineHealth Southern Region’s chief med- inflation. Its architects designed it to miniFunding for the multi-million-dollar class biomedical research center. ical officer. “Today, we cannot serve all of mize operating costs by stressing flexibility, Malone Family Tower comes from reserves, As a nonprofit institution, MMC also prothe patients who require this type of care at utility and efficiency. operating revenues, grants, bonds, and, most vides nearly 23 percent of all the charity care Maine Medical Center. This tower allows us “Health care excellence requires strategic, importantly, generous donations from the delivered in Maine. 

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Conn. Biz Promotes Industry Via Social Media Campaign PAVEMENT from page 1

“My vision was a website that would help customers understand what we offer and what various aspects of their project would look like,” he said. “I envisioned a website that would have a ‘Paving’ tab and give a video of what paving looks like. The same idea with ‘Milling,’ ‘Striping,’ and any of the services that we offer.

“Unfortunately, Web development at that time was very expensive and it was difficult to accomplish exactly what I was looking for,” he added. “It didn’t really have a name at the time, but we were one of the first companies to use social media to promote ourselves. There was no Instagram, Tik Tok or YouTube, but what was out there was a site called Facebook that was wildly popular with young people, and that’s where our social media presence started.

“We made up our own Facebook business page account and we started by taking pictures of trucks, primarily because my kids were at an age when they thought trucks were really cool and would get a lot of attention. We then started to put pictures of projects that were completed or in the process of being worked on. In no amount of time at all our Facebook became wildly popular. The

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10,000 followers. Instagram, with its heavy emphasis on photographs, turned into an overnight sensation for us. We currently have 143,000 followers on Instagram.

“YouTube has been another big success for us. We just keep feeding it videos of our projects. The YouTube channel has been a big hit within the industry. I am constantly amazed by how

many of our fellow contractors and people involved in paving equipment manufacturing are tracking our posts on YouTube.”

Stanley’s sons have been involved in the business since a very young age, and they take a lot of pride and an active role in the company’s Web marketing — they developed the idea of becoming social media influencers within the paving industry. They also developed the phrase “Raised on see PAVEMENT page 14

Capitalizing On Recycled Asphalt American Pavement Specialists is one of the leading paving and milling contractors in the state of Connecticut and the company’s owner, Bill Stanley, is a well-known media influencer for the asphalt equipment industry. The company recently purchased its third Bagela asphalt recycler, following the purchase of two recycling machines in 2012.

The general purpose of the Bagela is to turn pavement waste (ground millings, etc.) into a hot mix asphalt that can be produced year-round. A significant percentage of the asphalt is used in the off season to repair damaged areas such as potholes.

According to Stanley, “We purchased our first Bagela in 2012 and have worked closely ever since with Greg Harla, our representative with Bagela. If you look at the typical paving contractor in the United States, it’s almost always family run.

It might be brothers, it might be father and son, but there is always that family connection.

“To a company like ours, relationship and support is everything,” he added. “When we started working with Greg, he was a tremendous source of information on how to recycle and turn into cash asphalt that we had previously been unable to find other applications for. But, more than just his knowledge, he also supports our company.

Greg has been instrumental in promoting our

Raised on Blacktop social media presence and introducing it to other contractors and equipment manufacturers.

“But more than just lip service, he has also come to the table with a special Raised on Asphalt Bagela recycler.

That’s the kind of support that keeps us coming back to Bagela.”

To accommodate the new Bagela recycler, American Pavement Specialists has built a loading area so that the millings can be delivered and stockpiled effortlessly. The machine has been Bill Stanley (L) and Greg Harla with the limited edition Raised raised off the ground to accommodate On Blacktop Bagela recycler. better loading with mafia blocks and with a shed enclosure built around the The product also is used by utility contractors Bagela recycler so that approximately 20 tons of material can be kept dry and the operator is given who are patching their road cuts. The asphalt plants are typically closed for the winter so if conan opportunity to get out of the weather. tractors are producing hot recycled asphalt, they Because most of product being made is for wincan effectively capture that winter market. ter road repair, most of the production for the The market for the recycling asphalt is not just Bagela recycler is done in cold weather. Most of limited to road repair. If someone is looking for a that product is sold to customers, typically municibasic paved pad or yard where the quality of the palities or contractors focusing on municipal work. finish is not critical, the Bagela recycler is producIt’s a great market for American Pavement ing an affordable alternative to using virgin Specialists: cold patch repair has been determined asphalt, Stanley said. to be ineffective and costly. Filling holes with recy“We produce a product called Contractors Mix. cled hot asphalt has become the new normal in winter repair work. see ASPHALT page 14

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Chappell Significantly Staffs Service Department in Hopedale

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When Hitachi expanded its product offering to include excavators, Chappell Tractor was named the exclusive dealer of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and parts of Connecticut.

“With 26 in-house technicians, nine mobile technicians, 16 parts reps and nine sales representatives, we are well prepared to support the 7,500-square-foot facility that we have opened in Hopedale, Mass.,” Chappell said.

Chappell Tractor’s new facility has been recently remodeled and offers four service bays, a wellinventoried parts department and a great selection of Hitachi machines available for sale or rent. The Hitachi product offering includes 12 models of compact excavators, along with five models of compact wheel loaders, 28 mid-sized to large excavators, 18 mid-sized to large wheel loaders. Hitachi’s mining equipment division offers 17 quarry sized excavators and six haul trucks.

Mark Westberg will be the general manager of the Massachusetts facility, and Chris Lajoie and Josh Stack are the newest members of the equipment sales team at the Massachusetts store.

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Chappell Tractor is well-equipped to service Hitachi equipment, with nine mobile service trucks and 26 in-house technicians.

All of Chappell Tractor’s facilities have a well-stocked Hitachi parts inventory.

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A special auger system that allows for direct asphalt placement was jointly engineered between Trout River and American Pavement Specialists.

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The idea was to create a forum that promotes the asphalt and paving industries as well as giving information on how paving contractors can improve their businesses. Once again, it became nearly an overnight sensation, Stanley said.

Today “Raised On Blacktop” has 75,000 Instagram followers as well as several thousand followers on Facebook. In fact, the “Raised on Blacktop” concept has become so popular it now has its own apparel line. There is a daily stream of orders for branded hats, t-shirts and hoodies. In 2023, they had hundreds of thousands in just t-shirt sales. Orders come from across the world, including Paraguay, Australia and Saudi Arabia.

The company is even currently working on a deal to create “Raised on Blacktop” work shoes.

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In fact, the recycling area of Greg Harla of Bagela menAmerican Pavement Specialists tioned some benefits that he is yard was produced using recyseeing by doing cross promocled asphalt. Another application with Raised on Blacktop. tion that has created signifi“Bill and his family have cant savings is preserving for used multiple videos of the later use excess virgin asphalt Bagela at work through their from a project. social media platform,” he “It is not unusual to overestisaid. “We now have potential mate the amount of asphalt to Various stockpiles of millings, sorted by type. customers come to us that be used on a project, which don’t need an education additional benefit is not havhas been a real problem. What do you do with it? process because they are ing to extend your workday Once it cools, it’s useless to you and you can’t just already up to speed on what into the evening because too stockpile hot asphalt and use it the next day. We the Bagela does.” much asphalt was delivered are stockpiling our excess asphalt, reheating it and “It’s an extremely reliable for that day’s project. If it’s a running it through the Bagela recycler, and we are machine,” Stanley added multiple-day project, we able to use the excess product on our next project. from his experience of more would typically end up work“What’s really surprising is how long a pile of than 12 years of using the ing into the night to lay the hot asphalt will maintain its temperature. A load Bagela product.

“It’s built The shed constructed to house the Bagela extra load of asphalt, which that is left in our yard at the end of the day will is elevated by mafia blocks, allowing for a with a double jacket concept does not make for a happy typically hold much of its temperature beneath the larger finished product stockpile. and the flame never touches employee. Now we can just surface of the crusted over pile, so it’s really not a the material, so you don’t resend that load back to our big jump to get the entire pile back up to the ever have to worry about a burn factor. We’ve yard and heat it back up the next morning. This required temperature when you start out the next only had one machine failure in the past 12 years, also helps control unplanned overtime.” day. It’s just like throwing the asphalt in a which we repaired, but it was an issue with our The Bagela recycler is a significant revenue microwave and reheating it. It’s just as good a own operation of the machine. It was not the fault enhancer for American Pavement Specialists. product as it was the day before. of the Bagela.

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popular that companies like LeeBoy, Mauldin, John Deere, Bagela, Wirtgen, Trout River Trailers, XBroom Sweepers and Shoulder Master sweepers have released special “Raised on Blacktop” editions of their equipment.

“They pay us to operate their equipment and then promote it on our social media platforms,” Stanley said. “As an example, Mauldin released a Raised on Blacktop motor grader that includes the Raised on Blacktop logo prominently displayed on the machine and a number of upgrades to the machine that we worked with Mauldin to develop, including a special lighting package, a more comfortable seat and a special paint job.

“Trout River Trailers worked closely with us to develop an auger truck for an asphalt transfer trailer. It features an 8foot auger for unloading in specific spots, particularly in hard-to-reach areas, and the auger is completely operated by a remote control to give very precise delivery and allowing your worker to see exactly what is going on. The end result is something that looks a little bit like a hybrid of an asphalt trailer and stone slinger. “Trout River was amazing to work with. We had a concept of what we wanted but did not have the capacity to create it and their engineers worked very closely with us to create a new product to help us specifically meet some of our needs.”

XBroom, a sweeper company, also has gotten onboard with a Raised on Blacktop special edition. Like the others, it features the Raised on Blacktop logo and then some added features that aren’t included in its standard lineup.

“The LeeBoy special edition model is a LeeBoy 8520 paver, again with the Raised on Blacktop logo and some Raised On Blacktop Shoulder Master broom, which extra features that we worked with LeeBoy on. For instance, was introduced by Shoulder Master and Bill Stanley at we made a tool carrying kit that holds shovels, rakes, etc. It the World of Asphalt. has a special color scheme, additional LED lighting and strobe lights for visibility. More than 250 machines have where I started with a pick and a shovel. We have a lot of been sold thus far. experiences to share. We are always looking for ways to do “This machine is so popular that LeeBoy has them on a better job and when we find them, we use Raised on backorder. LeeBoy was the first company to work with us on Blacktop and its social media presence to share that informaspecial edition machines. We have a great history with tion.

LeeBoy; we’ve done business with them since we opened “We try to instill in all of our followers the importance of our doors and I’ve probably bought 20 LeeBoy machines in giving your employees as good a working environment as the past 25 years. We’ve stayed very loyal to the LeeBoy you can possibly have, considering the extreme conditions brand. They demonstrate a huge commitment to the paving we work in. For instance, we have started ordering our industry, and they are leaders in innovation. Just about every asphalt rollers with a heated and air-conditioned cab. It’s crityear there are improvements to the machines that were close ical these days to keep your employees as happy as possible. to perfect to begin with.

“Raised on Blacktop is designed to accomplish that, but also to help encourage a new generation of people coming into this industry and make sure that they are well suited to do excellent work.

“We consider ourselves a premium contractor. We do extremely good work and as a result we get paid a premium price. We are showing other contractors how to achieve getting themselves into this premium contractor position. It is to our advantage at American Pavement Specialists to have as many paving contractors as possible doing premium work. The reason, if everyone is doing premium work, the industry can maintain work at healthier pricing levels because they’re not competing with competitors that do inferior work.

“I have been in this business for 45 years, LeeBoy 8520 Raised On Blacktop edition.

This permanent utility patch was made from asphalt from the Bagela recycler.

We don’t find ourselves in the polarizing position of not being able to find help.

“Through things like putting cabs on rollers, we make our employees’ working environment as pleasant as possible.

The machines in our fleet are new or like-new, which is a pleasure for an employee to operate. After every job, we clean and service every piece that’s been used so that our employees have good and reliable equipment to go out and work with. American Pavement Specialists has built a brand that people want to work for.”

The service and maintenance of the equipment fleet does a lot more than just keep employees happy. The equipment in the fleet is typically worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Keeping machines in peak working order is a part of the company’s philosophy that pays off with significantly longer life of the machines, which in turn pays big dividends.

Stanley’s heavy emphasis on marketing his company, producing excellent quality work and taking good care of his equipment has all paid off. In Connecticut, Stanley said, he is known as the guy you want doing your job. It’s not unusual for potential customers to immediately say, “yes, I’ve heard about you guys, you do really good work.”

American Pavement Specialists is a marketing-driven company, and it does far more than market its website and its social media platforms. For example, at one time it sponsored a car in the NASCAR truck series that was driven by Spencer Boyd.

Another aspect of its marketing vision is having every machine in the fleet carefully detailed with the company’s logo, and then making sure that every machine looks as shiny and clean as the day it was purchased when it is delivered at the job site, further enhancing American Pavement Specialists’ image.

For more information, visit www.americanpavement.com.  CEG (All photographs in this article are Copyright 2024 Construction Equipment Guide. All Rights Reserved.)

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Opinions Differ On What to Do About Old Conn. River Bridge New Hampshire officials and area residents remain at odds over plans to fix the 94-yearold Cheshire Bridge, which spans the Connecticut River between Charlestown, N.H., and Springfield, Vt. The state’s Department of Transportation (NHDOT) had planned to advertise the project to contractors in the fall and begin work next spring that would require closing the bridge for 34 weeks, according to Valley News, a daily news source for the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont.

That plan has been delayed until at least 2026; in the meantime, though, business owners and others remain concerned about the impact of the project.

The three-span Pennsylvania truss Cheshire Bridge carries traffic from N.H. Highway 11 to U.S. Highway 5 in Vermont.

On May 15, with about 40 people in attendance inside Charlestown’s old town hall, David Scott, NHDOT’s in-house design chief, presented a pair of options for fixing the structure. The first would close the bridge for eight weeks for overhead painting, while the second called for a one-lane traffic restriction on the span lasting almost eight months.

He added that the bridge rehabilitation would take place over two construction seasons.

While eight weeks of complete closure was an improvement over 34 weeks, those who spoke at the meeting said it was still too long.

“It is better, but it does not sound all that great,” said Charlestown resident Phil Turner.

Under the second alternative presented by Scott, large trucks could not fit in the single lane and would need to detour to other crossings. If that option were approved, one lane would be widened from 8 ft. to 12 ft. to allow for truck traffic.

Additionally, expanding the one-lane width would mean equipment for painting the structure would be placed on a barge in the river instead of on the bridge deck.

But, Scott added, using a barge would make the Cheshire Bridge project more complex and increase the environmental impact to wetlands and endangered species. In addition, because the Connecticut River is shallow, a bulkhead would have to be constructed on the water’s edge to load the barge with the needed equipment.

Without the longer full closure, the original price to repair the bridge of $6.3 million would increase to $9 million with the barge, Scott said.

Many Area Residents Would Prefer New Bridge Valley News reported that a number of residents at the meeting felt that an entirely new bridge would be a better long-term solution than repairing and repainting the existing 489ft-long, 21-ft.-wide structure, first constructed

in 1930.

The last time the Cheshire Bridge saw a paint job was in 1992, which required it to be closed to traffic for about four weeks.

Additional repairs were completed in 2015, according to the news source.

Turner and others contend the bridge is too narrow for today’s vehicles and because of its age, will require more costly maintenance in the years ahead. Many suggested it should be used for pedestrian and bike traffic once a new bridge is constructed.

Among those arguing for a new structure over the river were Charlestown business owners Matt Blanc of Blanc and Bailey Construction, and Albert St. Pierre of St. Pierre Sand and Gravel.

St. Pierre noted the $20 million that NHDOT has budgeted for permanent repairs to a section of N.H. 12 in South Charlestown, damaged by heavy rains three years ago, could be better spent on a new replacement for the Cheshire Bridge.

“Give it to us for a new bridge, please,” implored St. Pierre.

Fellow Charlestown resident Vincent Jordan said a bridge closure would burden many people with longer, more expensive commutes. The closest crossings on the Connecticut River are 10 mi. north of town and 9 mi. to the south.

Jordan referred to the river crossing at Brattleboro, Vt., where a second bridge was constructed in 2003 next to a 1930s-era span, the latter of which has been converted for use by pedestrians and bicyclists, as something he would like to see in his town.

“Why can’t you do it here?” he asked Scott.

“In 10 years, you will be back here [to make repairs]. Do the right thing. Build a new bridge.”

If approved, Scott said a new span connecting Charlestown and Springfield, Vt., would be moved to the end of NHDOT’s next 10year plan and would not be constructed for at least another decade.

At the very least, residents called for a temporary bridge to be put in place before repairs to avoid a complete closure and suggested the state transportation agency work with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.

However, Scott explained that a temporary bridge would add years to the project and another $5 million to $6 million in costs, raising the entire construction effort to approximately $14 million.

At the conclusion of the May 16 meeting, NHDOT Commissioner William Cass assured everyone that his agency will continue to research the best path forward for the Cheshire Bridge, even if that takes another two or three years.

“We want to make sure whatever project comes out of this it is not rushed,” he said. “If we have to take more time to develop a consensus, we will do that.” 

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