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Vol. XlIX • No. 24
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Pittsfield Lawn & Tractor was founded in 1986 by Albert, Andy and Richard Wojtkowski, three brothers in their late teens and early twenties from Pittsfield, Mass. The business took flight in their father’s old milk processing plant, which is where the company still operates today. The Wojtkowski brothers were the youngest people to become a certified John Deere compact equipment dealer in New England and have grown the store from a specialty shop to one of western Massachusetts’ largest and most trusted power equip- The Wojtkowski brothers ment, construction equip- (L-R) are Richard, Albert and Andy, founded ment and recreational vehiPittsfield Lawn & Tractor cle dealers. in 1986. Over the years, Pittsfield Lawn & Tractor has taken on numerous different lines of equipment, including John Deere, Dynapac, Yanmar, Woods, Stihl, Wacker Neuson, JLG, CAM Superline trailers, Big Tex trailers, Kawasaki UTVs, Arctic Cat, Can-Am, SkiBy dave gram Doo, Honda Generators and ASSOCIATED PRESS more, making it one of the most diverse equipment STOWE, Vt. (AP) A dealers in the Massachusetts new bridge installed this area. summer just south of Stowe The company has an village is showing big onsite parts and service cracks in its concrete department, staffed with cerbeams, and a crew was on tified/trained technicians to the scene Oct. 30 to patch work on every line it carries. them with epoxy. Its fleet of service trucks Phil Harrington, the allows it to come to the cusAgency of Transportation tomer’s assistance, anytime engineer in charge, said the they’re in need. bridge on Vermont Route “Customer service is our 100 would be checked number one concern. We again in the spring to see know how important it is to how well the fixes are be taken care of and to have working. someone you can trust. Our Richard Tetreault, chief parts department is staffed engineer at the Transportation Agency, told see PIttSFIEld page 4
New Vermont Bridge Shows Cracks in Concrete Beams
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Cracks that have been patched with epoxy in the concrete beams of a new bridge over Gold Brook along Vermont Route 100 south of Stowe, Vt., are visible on the underside of the bridge Oct. 30.
the Associated Press there was no near-term danger of the steel-reinforced structure collapsing. Rather, there’s worry that the $1.3 million bridge’s lifespan might be shorter than the projected 100 years. The 74-ft. span crosses the Gold Brook, a tributary of the Little River, which flows to the Waterbury Reservoir and then the Winooski River. “We feel comfortable with its structural performance based on our engineering evaluation,” Tetreault said. “But we’d like to minimize the cracking. You can have water and winter see BrIdgE page 8