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Signals of Deerfield, N.H. The reconstruction of NH 119 began approximately 600 ft. south of Georges Field Road and extends north and west along the new alignment for 6/10 of a mile where it will connect to Route 142 see SPANS page 8

Griffin and Sons Excavating Keeps Snowy Roads Clear Vermont’s Mad River Valley is one of the snowiest locations on the East Coast of the United States; crisscrossed by winding dirt roads and dotted with ski resorts. Here’s where Chris Griffin clears snow in the early mornings throughout the long Vermont winter.

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Griffin knows these hills well, having grown up working here for his see SNOW page 12

To help increase his company’s productivity, Griffin uses two 15ton wheel loaders that he said are the perfect size for clearing snow. He outfits one with a 12-ft. snow pusher attachment for plowing and the other with a bucket for stacking.

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Students, faculty, community members and dignitaries, including Gov. Chris Sununu, gathered to celebrate a shared goal of improving access to quality education, increasing regional recruitment, and helping WMCC meet current and future workforce needs in the North Country by growing high-demand programs.

The 10,000 sq. ft. building will be home to WMCC’s Diesel Heavy Equipment Technology program as well as an innovation lab, a welding lab and flexible learning spaces.

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Reed & Reed Leads Bridge Replacement Projects in N.H., Vt.

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SPANS from page 1

A Grove crane sets a vault on the Vermont side.

A Caterpillar mini-excavator works in Pier 6.

A pump truck works on the cofferdam seal at Pier 5.

stockpiling soil for disposal. Next summer, we’ll close Route Work started on the project in September 2021 with an in Brattleboro with a new intersection that will be approxi- 142 for 90 days to build retaining walls up to 12 feet in anticipated completion date of Oct. 24, 2024. mately 900 ft. south of the existing intersection of Routes height that approach the bridge that will be built over the Currently, Reed & Reed is constructing rebar and concrete 119/142 in Vermont. The reconstruction of approximately New England Railroad and the Connecticut River.” formwork for the New Hampshire Abutment backwall, the 1,700 ft. of VT 142 and the construction of a new boat pier cap for Pier 7 and the footing for Pier 6. It also is ramp in New Hampshire will be completed during this augering out the top 80 to 85 ft. of 30-in. diameter pipe project as well. pile at Pier 5, driving cofferdam sheets at Pier 4 and “In New Hampshire, clearing and utility relocations extending the trestle toward Pier 3, Moran said. are complete,” said Mark Moran, civil engineer and The two truss bridges that are being replaced — the contract administrator of NHDOT. Charles Dana and the Anna Hunt Marsh bridges — The new bridge has seven piers with work progresswere constructed in 1920, with modifications installed ing on a number of them. in 1988 and 2003. They have been on the state’s “Red “Pier 7’s foundation is in the ground, its stem has List” since 2018 with poor superstructures listed. The been constructed just below the pier cap, it has been 21- and 23-ft. bridges are too narrow and have providbackfilled around the stem and the cofferdam has been ed a long history of traffic incidences and accidents removed,” Moran said. “Pier 5 piles are completed and when large vehicles have attempted to cross. the cofferdam has been sealed and dewatered. At Pier The truss bridges that are being replaced by the new 4, the cofferdam has been installed. Currently, our temsteel girder bridge won’t be demolished. Laroche said porary access trestle launched from the New they will be rehabilitated for pedestrian and bicycle Hampshire riverbank has been constructed to beyond The truss bridges that are being replaced — the Charles Dana use.

Pier 4 and closing in on Pier 3’s location.”

“They will be closed to vehicle traffic,” Moran said. and the Anna Hunt Marsh bridges — were constructed in 1920.

Reed & Reed noted, “The work sequence for each of “A future contract is to be put to bid to rehab those two the seven bridge piers is the same: install sheetpile cofferbridges. Minor repairs will be made to the concrete and steel dam, excavate soils, drive 30-inch pipe piles to refusal portions of these structures and a considerable amount of [approximately 100 ft. deep], place underwater concrete money will be spent on repainting them and removing and seal, construct reinforced concrete footing and pier shaft, abating old lead paint prior to a new paint application.” remove cofferdam. Repeat.”

The total cost of the project will be $61.2 million with “We’re doing abutment work on the seven piers and New Hampshire paying for the bulk of the amount and working on the trestle to give us access to the river piers,” Vermont the remainder. said Dustin Littlefield, project manager of Reed & Reed.

NHDOT and VTrans have agreed to fund the project uti“We’re also doing approach work for the new alignment and lizing an 83/17 percent split for all preliminary engineering slope embankment work.” costs of the new bridge. The town of Brattleboro will pay for Gary Laroche, project manager of the Vermont Agency of 7 percent of the construction costs to rehabilitate the Anna Transportation, said the demolition of the former Raymond Marsh Truss Bridge. NHDOT will pay for 93 percent of the James Metals building on Route 142 that will make way for costs of the rehabilitation of the Anna Marsh Truss Bridge the construction of the new bridge is the first element of the and 100 percent of the rehabilitation costs of the Charles project that has been completed in Vermont. A crew from Dana Hunt Truss Bridge. New Hampshire and Vermont are Bazin Brothers performed the demolition. currently utilizing state funds, federal formula funds, and “The relocation of overhead electricity and communicaGARVEE bonding for the construction of this project. Grant tion lines was also completed and they were moved underAnticipation Revenue Vehicles — GARVEEs — are debtground,” he said. “In the next six months, we’ll be mobilizfinancing instruments repaid with future Federal-aid funds.  ing equipment to construct Vermont Pier 1. We also have to Reed & Reed of Woolwich, Maine, is the lead contrac- CEG manage soils in accordance with state regulations, so we’re tor on the project.

(All photos courtesy of NHDOT.)

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Contractor Stays Busy in New England’s Warm, Cold Climes SNOW from page 1

grandparents’ company, Griffin and Griffin Excavating. When he bought the company, he changed the name to Griffin and Sons Excavating as a tribute to his two boys.

“I started out in the sandbox, and I never got out of it,” Griffin said. “I’d like them to do what we did. My family always has done it and it’s a good job. It’s a lot of fun. You get to work outside and take a lot of pride in your work.”

It may be fun, but it’s not easy. Griffin works seven days a week, year-round. When the ground is thawed he’s doing site preparation and road work; when it’s too cold to dig he’s clearing snow off driveways and the school parking lot. He has four employees and would have more if he had an easier time finding qualified operators. This year was the first year he had to turn down customers because he didn’t have enough labor to handle the increased work.

“I’m out driving the truck and working with the guys every day,” Griffin said. “But there’s only so much we can do.”

a school parking lot. Bright LED lights on Heavy Lifting, Pushing To help increase his company’s productiv- his wheel loaders allow him to work at night ity, Griffin uses two 15-ton wheel loaders with clear visibility to the snow pusher. That that he said are the perfect size for clearing visibility is paramount when performing snow. He outfits one with a 12-ft. snow snow removal, and Griffin said the machine pusher attachment for plowing and the other is designed so he can see all around it.

Support from his dealer with a bucket for stacking. keeps him and his crew working “Clearing up snow with a throughout winter. wheel loader and a snow pusher “I need good service and is a lot faster, and you can push dependability from my dealer,” more snow than with a skidGriffin said. “My machine has steer loader, especially when to be working when we need it. you get heavy snows,” Griffin My local dealer provides great said. service. They’re right on top of One of his wheel loaders is a stuff when you need them.”

Doosan DL220-7 that he purchased from G. Stone Overcoming Challenges Commercial in Middlebury, Vt. If fuel prices remain high, A previous relationship with the Chris Griffin Griffin acknowledges he may dealer offered Griffin the opportunity to purchase the newest iteration of have to raise his rates this coming winter.

“We don’t want to raise prices, but we Doosan wheel loaders.

When it snows, Griffin and his operators have to cover costs,” Griffin said. have to be ready at all times of the day. It “Everything revolves around fuel, and may be 1 a.m. when he’s clearing snow from increases make everything else go up.”

To control what he can, Griffin leases his wheel loaders and has warranties on his machines.

“I just try to get a monthly payment that’s comfortable because sometimes you don’t know what work you’re going to get in the winter,” Griffin said.

In the summertime he uses his wheel loaders in his company’s yard for loading material like stone, gravel and topsoil. When he’s in the cab, he appreciates the hands-free Bluetooth connection to his phone, because he’s often multitasking. For the owner of the company, there’s always something else to be done.

“I work with homeowners all the time,” Griffin said. “I go meet people, I go to the job and do estimates, and I run equipment.”

He does all that while raising a young family.

“I don’t get much sleep,” Griffin said.

Thankfully the cupholders in his cab hold a lot of coffee.

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New $18M Art Center in Waterville, Maine, Nears Completion with striking architectural Construction crews at the $18 designs that reveal the diversity million Paul J. Schupf Art Center and vitality of the spaces within. in downtown Waterville, Maine, • The Ed Harris Box Office, are in the final weeks of comjust inside the front entrance on pleting the new facility before it Main Street, will offer tickets to will be unveiled to the public all visual and performing arts Dec. 17. events, including those at the The 30,000-sq.-ft. center at 93 Waterville Opera House, Maine Main St., developed by Colby Film Center and nearby galCollege and Waterville Creates, will house the city’s visual and leries. performing arts offerings under • A giant glass curtain wall on one roof and include three cinethe first and second floors of the mas as part of The Maine Film arts center faces Castonguay Center.

Square to the south. The design The center is named for Paul will allow visitors to sit at tables J. Schupf, an art collector and or in a mini-living room overPhoto courtesy of Susan T Rodriguez longtime Colby benefactor who The 30,000-sq.-ft. center at 93 Main St., developed by Colby looking the square. Called The lived in Hamilton, N.Y., and died College and Waterville Creates, will house the city’s visual and Hub, the area is a work and gathin 2019 at age 82. He also served performing arts offerings under one roof and include three ering space named for Colby as an emeritus trustee of the col- cinemas as part of The Maine Film Center. graduate Mark Hubbert, who lege, and gave a naming gift for donated to the effort. Free, public the center, the amount of which he asked not vacant buildings, drawing more people to Wi-Fi also will be available throughout the live and work downtown, and strengthening entire building. to be revealed.

Construction on the project began in 2021 and supporting the arts and businesses • Glassed-in spaces on the ground floor

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After Colby President David Greene erecting new ones, which led others to fol- a day, seven days a week. arrived in Waterville eight years ago, he held low suit, the Morning Sentinel reported.

• The three cinemas — sized small, mediConstructed at the crossroads of Main um and large — on the second level of the a series of meetings with city officials, arts advocates, businesspeople and others to help Street and Castonguay Square, Waterville’s Schupf Art Center will seat 24, 46 and 120 decide what the city needed to thrive and new Schupf Art Center will encompass a patrons, respectively. Clark told the succeed. They concluded that rehabilitating series of attractions and amenities, along Kennebec news outlet that the small theater

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• A concessions stand, cafe tables and a lounge also will be on the second level, as well as a glass wall overlooking Main Street, and a skywalk leading to an expanded Waterville Opera House lobby. Additionally, a mural will be featured on one large wall created by Tessa O’Brien, a visiting artist with the Lunder Institute for American Art who works in the Greene Block + Studios across Main Street from the Lockwood Hotel.

• On the same level is Studio 1902, a flexible space designed to be rehearsal space for the Opera House. It will include a mirror and bar along the wall and a “sprung” floor for dance and theatrical productions.

• Prominently situated within the Schupf Center building is the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art, considered a Colby College Museum of Art expansion onto Main Street. The gallery has its own mechanical systems, including air handling for housing high-end art. Clark told the Kennebec news source that bringing the college’s art museum “down to Main Street is huge [and will] make it accessible in a way it never has been.”

• The Waterville Creates offices, including those for the Maine Film Center, Opera House and Ticonic Gallery and Studios, are on the basement level, along with electrical, sprinkler, IT and other mechanical rooms. 

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Decaying Mill in Maine to Receive $15M Transformation Construction has begun on a $15 million plan to transform the former Solon Manufacturing mill in downtown Waterville, Maine, into a brewery, housing and a hotel. City officials hope the project, on an island in the Kennebec River, will complement other local efforts in the works and boost economic development.

The historic 80,000-sq.-ft. mill, at 7 Island Ave., was bought five years ago by Jeff and Pam Powers, owners of Bigelow Brewing Co., and sold recently to High Tide Capital LLC of Bangor, the Waterville Morning Sentinel reported Nov. 5.

“Rehabbing an old mill building like that, there’s definitely a different set of issues for someone to deal with, but it’s very rewarding in the end,” Town Manager Christina Almand told the Waterville newspaper.

High Tide, which has done revitalization projects in Bangor and elsewhere, plans to have the Bigelow brewery and tap room anchor the ground floor. A 15- to 20-room

working with Bigelow Brewing for more than four years on the project.

“From conception to purchase, design and now construction, I’ve been very impressed with Bigelow’s passion for the project,” Savage said in an email. “Of course, it will help the business expand production and sales in the new downtown location, but [the Powers’] have always viewed this more of a win for the downtown area than their business.

A new brewery for locals and visitors, much needed downtown housing units, and the beautification of a historic building is what has been driving [them] to see this project through.”

He noted the couple’s partnership with High Tide accelerated the project, prompting the beginning of the roof’s reconstruction.

“This will be one of the more impactful projects Skowhegan has seen and frankly adds to the ongoing momentum Skowhegan is undergoing,” Savage told the Waterville news source.

“Rehabbing an old mill building like that, there’s definitely a different set of issues for someone to deal with…”

“This will be one of the more impactful projects Skowhegan has seen…”

Century Old Mill Being Reborn The mill was constructed in 1922 and originally housed Maine Spinning Co., according to information provided by the SCDC. The textile company was at its height from the 1940s to the Christina Almand 1970s, when it employed Waterville Town Manager 300 people and produced up to two million pounds of yarn for markets around the country. hotel, also on the first floor, will feature large Later, the building and factory was rooms designed for overnight or extended acquired by Solon Manufacturing, which stays. In addition, 45 apartments are planned operated until 2005. It produced a variety of on the second through fourth floors, accord- wooden, plastic, and metal products for the ing to Dash Davidson who, along with Max medical, industrial and food markets. The Patinkin, are High Tide’s principals. building changed hands several times but Davidson said there will be green space has remained mostly vacant for the last 17 surrounding the building, amenities in the years. basement serving the apartments and hotel, The Maine Historic Preservation and 7,000 sq. ft. of roof deck overlooking the Commission in August announced that the nearby Weston Dam and riverwalk. mill was added to the National Register of The development in the Somerset County Historic Places because of the influential town is expected to be completed within two role Maine Spinning Co. played in the textile years, he added. industry in the state for much of the 20th “We are starting construction immediate- century. ly,” Davidson said in an email to the The building is one of several such strucMorning Sentinel. “Roofers are on site to tures in the region undergoing a transformabegin installing a new roof on the building.” tion. Developers are planning to spend more Christian Savage, executive director of than $30 million on the first phase of redethe Somerset Economic Development Corp. velopment of one of the Lockwood Mill (SCDC), said his organization has been buildings extending south of downtown

Waterville news outlet.

“People will be able to live within a stone’s throw of shops, restaurants and recreation opportunities, and instead of our downtown shutting down at 5 p.m., we’ll see people out and about walking, biking and enjoying our riverfront seven days a week, all year long.”

MaineDOT, Skowhegan Partner On Village Center The town is partnering with the Somerset Economic Development Corp.

Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) and Main Street Skowhegan on a program called the Village Partnership Initiative to help plan a broad approach to downtown Waterville. And in Lisbon, officials are hop- design, according to Almand. Residents in ing the former Worumbo Mill can once June approved the work to develop a vision again become an economic catalyst for that for reinvestment and revitalization of town.

Skowhegan’s village center.

Each of the different projects under way Town Also Seeing Transformation has the potential to affect traffic flow Skowhegan, meanwhile, has several proj- through town, she explained, so a study for ects in various stages of development, constructing a new bridge across the including a new elementary school off Kennebec River has been put on hold for Heselton Street and a public safety building now. on East Madison Road expected to be ready “We want to take a step back and look at for occupancy next June. it comprehensively,” she said, adding Another project, The River Park, formerly Skowhegan will look for a consultant to help known as Run of River, will have the only with planning phases, and the town would adjustable wave on the Kennebec, which seek grants to make major improvements to will allow for whitewater rafting competitions and other events. The park will be accessible from downtown by a stairway, and audience seating is planned. In addition, approximately 50 mi. of trails are proposed for the area.

Main Street Skowhegan, a nonprofit focused on revitalization, received $2 million in federal funding to redevelop the downtown riverfront, Christina Almand which overlooks the Waterville Town Manager Kennebec River gorge, in anticipation of Skowhegan’s future river park.

Kristina Cannon, executive director of Main Street Skowhegan, said vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle travel. redeveloping the mill into a mixed-use facil- Federal funds also will be sought. ity with residential units is going to trans“All the different projects are in different form the downtown into a place where peo- phases, but I think we’re going to see a lot of ple not only work but also live, bringing new changes over the next 24 to 60 months,” vibrancy to the heart of the community.

Almand said, noting that more housing in “Add to that a river park with a prome- the area is needed. nade, trails, river access and enhanced white“In addition to that,” she said, “I think any water, and downtown Skowhegan becomes time an old mill building is being rehabilitatone of the most attractive new places to live ed in a community, it’s a positive project and in Maine,” she said in an email to the I love to see those mixed-use buildings.”  Christian Savage

“All the different projects are in different phases, but I think we’re going to see a lot of changes over the next 24 to 60 months.”

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Avangrid Sticks With Park City Wind Project Despite Delay A spokesperson of Orange, Conn.-based Avangrid’s Park City Wind project said the company is still committed to the renewable energy project and plans to redevelop a part of Bridgeport’s waterfront as a staging area for the project, despite pushing back its completion date.

Avangrid’s Craig Gilvarg told Hearst Connecticut Media, and reported Nov. 3 by Hearst’s Middletown Press, that the delay was announced in late October during the company’s third quarter earnings call with Wall Street analysts. In a written statement, he added the delay, which pushes back when the wind farm becomes operational from 2026 to 2027, “does not impact Avangrid’s plans for Bridgeport, which will play a central role in the Park City Wind project.”

“Avangrid continues to work closely with the Bridgeport community and the state of Connecticut to create new, well-paying clean energy jobs and build valuable Connecticutbased offshore wind capabilities along with a trained workforce prepared for future projects, while helping the state meet its clean energy goals,” he said.

But when asked to provide a timeline for the Bridgeport part of the development, he declined to comment beyond the statement.

The wind farm is planned to be built 15 mi. south of Massachusetts’s Martha’s Vineyard to produce enough electricity to power about 400,000 homes.

Avangrid’s latest reassurances about the Park City Wind project come four months after Hearst Connecticut Media reported that a zoning change had complicated the project’s future.

Bridgeport’s Barnum Landing is a 15-acre piece of land at 525 Seaview Ave. It will be used during the construction phase of the Park City Wind project for storage and assembly of the part of the wind turbines that anchor the body of the machines to the steel foundation.

A nearby three-acre port location would serve as an operations and maintenance hub for the wind farm after the completion of the construction phase, the MIddletown news source noted.

Improved Agreement With Massachusetts Needed Park City Wind CEO Pedro Azagra Blàzquez said the one-year delay in the project as well as for Avangrid’s Commonwealth Wind effort, 7 mi. south of Park City Wind’s site on the Atlantic Ocean, is necessary because the company’s focus “is on improving the project economics and renegotiating our PPAs [power purchase agreements]

because of the difficult environment.”

He told financial analysts that Avangrid has asked that state officials suspend their regulatory review of the project for a month as the company negotiates with Massachusetts to make the PPA more financially viable.

“We did these projects in 2019 and 2021, respectively,” Blàzquez explained. “Since then, the markets experienced meaningful and anticipated changes due to high inflation and supply chain constraints and higher capital and borrowing costs, making it necessary for us to pursue changes to the PPA terms, which we believe are modest and achievable.”

Gilvarg added the delay also will allow the Park City Wind project “to take advantage of the next generation of wind turbine technology advancements.”

When asked if Connecticut’s PPA contained any clauses that either prohibit renegotiating or provide for financial penalties for delays, a state Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) spokesman told the Press that “DEEP will review any Park City Wind Request for contractual amendment at the time it is submitted to determine if such amendment is in the interest of ratepayers and helps further the state’s energy goals including reliability, environmental, economic development and equity.”

The Park City Wind project is expected to generate an estimated $890 million in direct economic development for Connecticut.

Trio of Avangrid Projects Planned Park City Wind is one of three wind farms that Avangrid has that are in various stages of development.

The company’s Vineyard Wind I project is the furthest along, according to Blàzquez, and is already under construction. That wind farm will generate enough energy for more than 400,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts when it begins operating sometime in 2024.

“The project is progressing well and remains on track with the construction plan,” he said.

The second, Commonweath Wind, is projected to generate 1,200 megawatts of renewable energy for Massachusetts — enough electricity to power 750,000 homes.

The three New England projects would generate tens of thousands of jobs during the construction phase, most of which will be in Massachusetts and Connecticut, according to Blàzquez, and will generate more than 1,500 long-term sustained jobs during the operational life of the project. 

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