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Too Much Rain Damages Aging Va. Bridges New England Ski Resorts Test Priorities in General Assembly By Bob Lewis
Conn. Firm Test Drives Cat’s N ew CT660…8
AP POLITICAL WRITER
Ransome CAT Holds Six-Hour Sales Event…12
Killington Ski Resort lost a building to the tropical storm when a foundation was undercut, collapsing the K-1 Lodge Superstar Pub. The resort’s snow-making pump houses, base lodges and other buildings were damaged; skiing and hiking trails and roadways on the 3,000-acre property were eroded and mudded. Briggs Equipment Welcomes Bush’s Warriors...32
Table of Contents ....................4 Truck & Trailer Section ..65-71 Recycling Section ............75-97 Attachment Section ....107-114 Snow & Ice Section ....115-119 Parts Section ......................120 Auction Section ..Starts at 126 Business Calendar ..............128 Advertisers Index ................142
By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
The mountain communities of New England generally welcome moisture that falls to earth, whether it comes as rain or snow. The rain feeds the forests of hardwood trees that explode into vibrant colors in the autumn and lure free-spending tourists into the region. Snow that follows a month later gives skiers white stuff to plow through, skim over and tumble into, all to the delight of ski resort operators. Construction companies also benefit from this combination of ample precipitation and sloping terrain. Water constantly seeks a lower elesee RAIN page 46
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia has about 1,400 bridges listed as structurally deficient. It has nearly 2,000 that were built before World War II. So why is it so tough to find money to improve them? As with the federal government and other states across the country, it hasn’t been a priority people are willing pay more for. President Barack Obama renewed the issue by appealing for infrastructure spending as part of his jobs bill. Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine twice asked the General Assembly during his term to boost taxes to cope with a growing backlog of highway needs, and twice, legislative Republicans rejected new taxes for roads and bridges. His GOP successor, Gov. Bob McDonnell, won’t raise taxes, instead proposing tolls, debt, selling state-owned liquor stores and more than $1 billion in savings a transportation department audit uncovered. While even fellow Republicans rebuffed his liquor-privatization idea, he marshaled enough cash this year to free up more than $3 billion for road construction and maintenance. Recently, McDonnell gained conditional federal approval of his proposal to place tolls on Interstate 95 in Virginia. But McDonnell and legislative leaders of the GOPruled House and the Democratic Senate agree that the one-time money infusion is far short of the state’s long-term transportation needs. And Virginia can no longer anticipate federal funding — for generations,
Dewatering the American Falls at Niagara see story on page 44
On June 12, 1969, the American Falls became a mere trickle.
see BRIDGES page 120