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BELMONT — The bridge spanning the Tioga River on Church Street is closed indefinitely after the state Department of Transportation determined it was unsafe after an inspection Thursday morning. Selectman Ron Cormier said the DOT inspectors performed a routine inspection on the bridge Thursday and by noon Town Administrator Jeanne Beaudin had fax
After Beaudin got the notice Thursday, he said selectmen held an emergency meeting, ordered the bridge closed and barricaded, and instructed Beaudin to contact one of the engineering firms the town has previously employed for other projects for an evaluation. He said there is engineering money available in the Public Works Department budget. He also said there is about see BRIDGE page 14
Charlie St. Clair due back in town this weekend, will be laid-up for awhile BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
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late Friday night or early Saturday morning. Reached by telephone yesterday while aboard a train near Syracuse, New York, St. Clair said that Jennifer Anderson, his colleague at the association, met him in Chicago and will
accompany him home. On August 4, St. Clair fractured his left leg and knee as well as his right hand in the collision with the large buck on U.S. Route 20 near Bassett, Nebraska. He underwent surgery at Good Samaritan Hos-
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