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Take One
Vol. 3 No. 32 • August 17, 2011
Community News, Sports, Arts, Entertainment and Food for Rutland and Southern Vermont
Scott to spend a day at this newspaper By Mary Beth Schaeffer
The Lowe’s store in Ticonderoga was unexpectedly closed Monday, Aug. 15, laying off nearly 90 workers.
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Ti Lowe’s shuttered By Fred Herbst
fred@denpubs.com TICONDEROGA, NY — Lowe's has closed its Ticonderoga store. The national home improvement chain made no public announcement, but failed to open for business Monday, Aug. 15. Calls to the store wer e answered with an automated message, "Sorry, this location is permanently closed." Ticonderoga Supervisor Deb Malaney said she heard of the closing the night before, although she never received formal notice fr om Lowe's. "I had no heads up whatsoever," Malaney said. "It's really a setback for us." Lowe's opened in T iconderoga Feb. 27, 2009. The $12 million store was located at 1092 Wicker St. It had 102,000 squar e feet of space and stocked 32,000 items. "They had hurdles all the way," Malaney said of Lowe's. "They had issues with the APA (Adir ondack Park Agency) and then the bridge closed right after they opened." APA hearings on the store and the size of its sign delayed construction. The Lake Champlain Bridge was closed in October 2009 when state transportation of ficials, without warning, declared it unsafe. The bridge served about 3,000 vehicles a day , meaning people who used the bridge daily to r each their jobs, health car e facilities, grocery stores and other necessities were forced to take detours lasting up to four hours. That closure limited business with Vermont customers. Founded in 1946 and based in Moor esville, N.C., Lowe's is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world. For mor e information visit Lowes.com.
MANAGING EDITOR — Vermont’s award-winning Circus Smirkus brought the big top to Pico Mountain for two shows last week. The traveling youth circus featured 30 child performers. This year’s Big Top was a tribute to journalism—Front-Page Follies: Big Top Big News. This mile-high “editor” clearly knows the feeling of a looming deadline. We concur—the news business is a three-ring circus. Photo by Tim Specter
M I D D L E B U R Y — Ve r mont Lt. Gov. Phil Scott will spend a day New Market Press, LLC, publishers of the Addison Eagle and Green Mountain Outlook newspapers. Scott will visit the staff of the newspapers Aug. 16. The lieutenant governor ’s visit is part of his statewide Everyday Job Initiative. Scott has been touring Vermont and working as a “temp” in a variety of small business. He was in Addison County last in 2010 when he Phil Scott worked as a lunch server at Hlen Porter Nursing Home in Middlebury. Scott said the initiative is a way for him to better understand the challenges facing Vermont businesses. On Aug. 16, Scott will attend New Market Press’ weekly staff meeting. He will also meet Publisher Edward Coats, Managing Editor Louis V arrichio, and Sales Dir ector Mark Brady . Scott will join Brady on several sales calls in the Addison County area. Scott’s visit to the newspaper of fices r esulted after V arricchio invited him to become a sales associate for a day as part of his Everyday Jobs challenges. “We’re honored by Lt. Gov. Scott’s willingness to visit with us. I hope he will come away fr om the visit with a better understanding of how free community newspapers work as well as how we serve the community at no cost to r eaders. Like it or not, many folks don’t want to pay for their newspapers anymore, so advertising-paid free local papers are the model for the future,” Varricchio said. “This not unlike getting your news via AM-FM radio, network television, and the Internet. W e also hope the lieutenant governor will come away with a better understanding of the economic challenges facing some of our local advertisers.”
Lake Champlain bridge opening in question NYSDOT uncertain when span will be ready By Fred Herbst
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The arch of the new Champlain Bridge is being constructed in Port Henry, N.Y. and will be floated to the bridge site later this month. Photo by Nancy Frasier
CROWN POINT, NY — Will the new Champlain Bridge open as scheduled Oct. 9? No one seems to know. “We are currently in discussions with the contractor to see what impact the spring weather and flooding has had on constr uction and determine when the bridge will be opened to traf fic,” said Car ol Breen, senior public information officer with the NewYork State Department of Transportation. She declined to offer an opening date. DOT officials have insisted the
bridge pr oject is on schedule, despite granting the contractor a 65day extension to its pr oject schedule in March. Flatiron Constr uctors of Lafayette, Colo., is building the span. It was the low-bidder at $69.6 million. Flatiron is under contract to build the new span within 500 days of gr oundbreaking. The contract includes a pr ovision r equiring Flatiron to absorb the costs of the adjacent, temporary ferry service — about $30,000 a day — for every day beyond the 500-day limit. The contract also pr ovides a financial incentive — up to $1.5 million — See BRIDGE, page 3
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